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Recent Examples on the Web That said, there is a lot of indirect evidence that the Census Bureau data do not miss huge numbers of people. — Steven A. Camarota, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022 Even so, there’s some indirect evidence that this adaptation also happens in the intestines of humans. — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2020 Almost all of these discoveries, however, rely on indirect evidence: the regular brightening and dimming of a star as a planet transits across its face, or the wobble in a star’s axis caused by the gravitational pull of a nearby world. — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2021 The work of the current study, provides indirect evidence of aseismic loading, and a transition from aseismic to seismic slip. — David Bressan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021 And last year, researchers found indirect evidence of ribosomes in the extracellular space. — Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American, 17 June 2020 On the other hand, others have lambasted the agency for being too aggressive in pushing for the approval of Aduhelm, a controversial Alzheimer’s drug, based on flimsy and indirect evidence. — Haider J. Warraich, STAT, 5 Nov. 2021 The geographic concentration of federal science funding around a relatively small number of elite research universities offers indirect evidence of this. — M. Anthony Mills, National Review, 27 Sep. 2021 There are two ways to show market power: indirect evidence and direct evidence. — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 19 Aug. 2021 See More

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