eyewitness
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈaɪˌwɪtnəs/
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testigo presencial
- After the accident, multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing the driver run a red light.
- eyewitness accounts
- eyewitness testimony
- eyewitness statements
And I said they weren't eyewitnesses to this.
- And I said they weren't eyewitnesses to this.
- So we're here to get your eyewitness account on what happened on that day.
- And we had a situation where in there was there were eyewitnesses to the actual event.
- But let's roll the tape back and take a look at this supposed eyewitness testimony.
- We discovered or we trace their route back through eyewitnesses.
- So in science, eyewitness testimony is the lowest form of evidence there is.
- Most exoneration cases are from faulty eyewitnesses.
- I have it from an eyewitness account that she was seen walking up the steps of the Widener Library.
- If it comes to physical scars or if it comes to actual eyewitnesses, in your mind, which ones, which accounts are the most credible?
- And this is something that happens to this day when you have these eyewitnesses, you know, speak their truth and testify as to what they saw.
- So of course I, I have not been an eyewitness, otherwise I wouldn't, I wouldn't do a caveat like that.
Examples
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Prosecutors claimed to have a mountain of physical evidence and powerful eyewitness testimony against him in a murder case.
Academic text (2011) -
Herb, we got eyewitnesses placing him at the scene of the crime.
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So we're here to get your eyewitness account on what happened on that day.
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Still, we believe that the suspect was a pregnant woman based on eyewitness accounts.
Fiction book (2002) -
Migrants' experiences during the trip have recently been published as parts of eyewitness accounts.
Academic text (1993) -
If you look at eyewitness accounts, you start seeing wide discrepancies of numbers.
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Santiago was the only eyewitness.
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In fact, Rzhevskaia was an eyewitness to most of the events she describes.
Academic text (1991) -
Thus, investigating officers need to ask eyewitnesses whether the suspect was defending himself or herself.
Academic text (1997) -
Sylvestre's fate is not clear, but an eyewitness claimed that he was seen on the battlements screaming.
Synonyms
889
2.5
A person who sees an event and can tell what happened
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2.8
A person who watches and notices things, often to give expert opinion
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6.9
A person who gives evidence in court about what they personally saw or experienced
A person who sees an event like a crime or accident and tells what happened
How Reliable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eyewitness comes from two simple words, eye and witness, where eye means the organ for seeing and witness means someone who tells what happened. So, an eyewitness is a person who 'saw' an event themselves and can describe it.