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eyewitness

[ahy-wit-nis, ahy-wit-nis, ahy-wit-nis] / ˈaɪˌwɪt nɪs, ˈaɪˈwɪt nɪs, ˈaɪˌwɪt nɪs /


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For example, errors in memory or suggestive questioning during eyewitness interviews can influence how events are remembered.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

Without access to more footage on the ground or eyewitness testimony, satellite imagery is crucial to our understanding of what happened.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

We know that eyewitness identification is notoriously unreliable.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

Through eyewitness accounts Mr. Stern reveals, in harrowing detail, what really happens when PGMs take over the battlefield.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Of course he’d follow a civil rights case, especially when it was in Mississippi, and he probably couldn’t wait to get my eyewitness account of the whole trial.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe