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documentary

2 adjective
     
Related topics: Media
documentary2 [only before noun]
1AM documentary films, programmes, photographs etc give or show information about a particular subject:
documentary films
2 consisting of or written on documents
documentary evidence/proof
One of the most useful sources of documentary evidence is maps.
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