as in supportive
serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something
no dearth of probative evidence for the theory of evolution
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Recent Examples of probative
Perhaps there is no more probative example of this when the current president would not rule out using American military force to take Greenland and/or the Panama Canal.
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Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
Weinstein's lawyers argued before the trial that use of such testimony is more prejudicial than probative, but the judge who presided over the trial decided to allow it following a secret hearing.
—Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
If the emails are probative, the jury should see them.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 May 2022
Her recent albums have been even more probative.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2021
Fulbright shepherded the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through the Senate in 1964, but two years later, his probative hearings helped shift public opinion against the war.
—James Goldgeier, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018
Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
Weinstein's lawyers argued before the trial that use of such testimony is more prejudicial than probative, but the judge who presided over the trial decided to allow it following a secret hearing.
—Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
If the emails are probative, the jury should see them.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 May 2022
Her recent albums have been even more probative.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2021
Fulbright shepherded the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through the Senate in 1964, but two years later, his probative hearings helped shift public opinion against the war.
—James Goldgeier, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for probative
supportive
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It’s not assured, but the mix of activist pressure, operational upside, and supportive sentiment makes the case compelling enough to watch.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Domingo is set to play the Jackson family patriarch, Joe Jackson, in Michael, and during the amfAR benefit gala at the Venice Film Festival, said that Paris and her brother, Prince Jackson, had been supportive of the film.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Probative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/probative. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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