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Recent Examples of eyewitnessThe catching of a culprit—more than three decades after the fact, without forensic evidence or eyewitnesses—was heralded as an overdue reparation for police negligence and as a civil-rights milestone for Australia’s gay community.—Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 An eyewitness, Josh Thomas, disputed this while recounting the events to WGN-TV.—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025 One of the last living Holocaust survivors from the small Polish town of Gniewoszów, along with an aging eyewitness, break decades of silence about Jews who were murdered there six months after the Nazis were defeated.—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025 To that point, eyewitness testimony could prove crucial.—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for eyewitness
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witness
Noun
On Monday, a faction of the paramilitary gendarmerie supporting the protests also took control of the gendarmerie at a formal ceremony in the presence of senior government officials, a Reuters witness said.
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13 Oct. 2025
However, a witness and video footage showed Kuenn did not stop at the stop sign, according to the criminal complaint.
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