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Part of that has just been circumstantial and part of that has been by design.

A fair amount of it is biological, but a lot of it is also circumstantial.

The problem is that there is an enormous amount of both direct and circumstantial evidence to the contrary.

The case, he said, is “built on loose circumstantial evidence.”

Still, the circumstantial case against Lieberman involved much more money and was much more transparent.

These stories by a round-about way, gathering in circumstantial detail as they travelled, had reached his sister.

While a jury might refuse to convict on circumstantial evidence a detective is not so deterred.

Circumstantial evidence backed by a confession that checks on all angles is about all any jury needs to be convinced of guilt.

I have known you for a long time, and possess the most circumstantial details about the plans you were devising.

A public meeting was convened, and Moffat gave a circumstantial account of the information he had gathered.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to circumstantial, such as: coincidental, inconclusive, indirect, amplified, concomitant, and concurrent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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