well-documented

adjective

Having extensive documentation and evidence.

Meanings

adjectivewell-documented (comparative more well-documented, superlative most well-documented)

comparative more well-documented · superlative most well-documented

  1. Having extensive documentation and evidence.

    People are assumed to follow the maxim and submaxim, but cross-cultural differences are well-documented regarding the enactment of the submaxim.

    2004, Michele J. Gelfand, Jeanne M. Brett, The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture, page 316
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    It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.

    2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

    It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing full-well the toxic range of opinion encompassed by the term.

    2017 November 16, Bret Stephens, “Steve Bannon Is Bad for the Jews”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2017

Origin

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