Can evidence be used as verb?
Solution 1:
You can certainly find similar examples if you look hard enough:
The study also evidenced significant associations among 3 health risk indices
(From Associations Between Perceptions of School Connectedness and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors in South African High School Learners)
COCA (my search: * EVIDENCE_v*) shows that by far the most common use of the verb is in the phrase “as evidenced by”, followed by regular passive constructions such as “is evidenced”.
A more common word here would be “the study found...”