eyewitness

as in witness
a person who sees something happen and is able to describe it The police are hoping to locate an eyewitness to the shooting.

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Recent Examples of eyewitness According to court documents, an eyewitness told investigators that Ahmed had recently become addicted to crack cocaine and that Carter had allegedly sold her drugs in the past. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2025 In a incident for which there are multiple eyewitnesses as well as video footage, Ballal was attacked by Israeli settlers in his home village of Susiya on Tuesday evening, he was then arrested by Israeli soldiers and held in a military base overnight. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025 According to Ballal's co-director, Basel Adra, and several eyewitness accounts, Ballal was beaten by more than a dozen Israeli settlers, then taken handcuffed and blindfolded from his home in a military vehicle. Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025 These were composed somewhere far from Jerusalem, in a language that Jesus and his disciples would not have known, by writers who could not have been eyewitnesses. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for eyewitness

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“Eyewitness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eyewitness. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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