[C]According to witnesses, thecarused in therobberywas agreenvanwith Pennsylvanialicenseplates.
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Someone who is witness to somethingseesit:
[U]She was witness to thetragicevent.
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If you are a witness, you areaskedto bepresentat aparticulareventand tosign(= writeyournameon)adocumentinordertoprovethat things have been donecorrectly:
[C]The will has to besignedby two witnesses.
witnessnoun(PERSON IN COURT)
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apersonin alawcourtwhopromisestotellthetruthandanswersquestionsabout something that wasseenor isknown:
defense/prosecutionwitnesses
Five witnesses areexpectedtotestifyat thetrialtoday.
Idiom
bear witness tosomething
witness
verb[T]
us/ˈwɪt·nəs/
witnessverb[T](BE THE PERSON WHO SEES)
toseesomethinghappen:
We were there at thetimeand witnessed theaccident.
As a matter of principle, it was the spouses who were supposed to bring forward the witnesses to their nuptials.
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However, something extremely unlikely happens : those whowitnessthe event do not wonder at it at all.
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He visited rural villages and witnessed how the different groups lived in close proximity to one another.
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The passages might even be seen - despite their preservation as written texts - to provide a uniquewitnessto the improvisatory practices of oral poets.
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Thus, the eighteenth century witnessed neither an economic nor a monetary crisis.
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I align with the latter view - history has witnessed the flourishing of many normative systems we now find dubious or even paradigmatically unacceptable.
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The defence attacks the secondwitnessclaim by pointing out the corroborative evidence that thewitnessis biased (17).
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Cases and controls were similar on all demographic variables, school performance, number of attacks witnessed and psychopathology before the onset of the epidemic.
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Those that had witnessed a corrupt act also expressed more willingness to take part in political activism.
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These committed essays, of course, bearwitnessto important issues, even if they do not always illuminate them.
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First, the re-opening of the site promises all the sensational imagery witnessed in the 1960s with improved archaeological technologies of the 1990s.
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He refers, for example, to 'ethnographic witnessing ' which has a connotation of superiority associated with religion.
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As the articles in this issue bearwitness, such refined description of specific cases is already underway.
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The end of the millennium wouldwitnessthe twilight of the social model and its institutional manifestation, the welfare state.
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The most plausible explanation for our -ic and -ical pickle is that we are witnessing language change at work: a messy but fascinating business.
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Collocationswithwitness
witness
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alibi witness
If not, then his theory as applied to alibis will not produce bizarre results very often, only when thealibiwitnessis a stranger or hostile to the defendant.
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character witness
I shall be prepared to attend court as acharacterwitnessfor him.
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credible witness
For instance, is onecrediblewitnessto a crime sufficient to convict?
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