expert testimony

collocation in English

meaningsofexpertandtestimony

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expert
noun[C]
uk
/ˈek.spɜːt/
us
/ˈek.spɝːt/
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill relating to a particular subject ...
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testimony
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈtes.tɪ.mən.i/
us
/ˈtes.tə.moʊ.ni/
(an example of) spoken or written statements that something is true, especially those given in a ...
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(Definition ofexpertandtestimonyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexpert testimony

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The growing discontent with scientificexperttestimonyprovided ample ground for these anxieties.
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In addition, subject specialists are usually present to provideexperttestimonyabout the technologies being discussed.
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This phenomenon is the review ofexperttestimonyby medical organizations to which the expert belongs.
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Third, they suggest that anyexperttestimonyshould be subject to peer review.
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The third paper, which discusses the ethical issues related toexperttestimony, makes three key points.
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The problem of scientificexperttestimonyhas a long and rich history.
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During the mediation,experttestimonywas heard on the probable impacts of the new legal situation for waste treatment and disposal practices.
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For example, suppose the evidence isexperttestimony, and the form of the argument is that of appeal to expert opinion.
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As such, it may include language crimes, but the description and definition of language crimes need not involveexperttestimony.
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Eleven of the cases reviewed involvedexperttestimonyon behalf of plaintiffs.
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The long view makes it clear that conflictingexperttestimonyhas been a chronic phenomenon for over two centuries now.
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Indeed, if there are no ready substitutes for jurors' lack of sophistication, then trials may not be decided by jurors, but rather by slick lawyering, savvyexperttestimony, and chance.
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Far from being new, the putative problem of scientificexperttestimonyin common law courts has a long and rich history.
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Laughlin used the expression "theexperttestimonyof the eugenicist" in detailing the procedures through which people would be declared cacogenic.
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It is incredible that it did not even consider suchexperttestimony.
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But the great hold-up has come in our existing practice so far as it relates to a full oral hearing ofexperttestimony.
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There, again, you have a tax which according toexperttestimonyis not likely to yield much.
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Judges are blamed because some of them and some juries have accepted what appeared to beexperttestimony from a reputable scientist and the evidence of apparently honest, respectable witnesses.
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The symposium and the television campaign ofexperttestimonythat followed in early 1990 can have left no one in any doubt of that.
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The evidence includedexperttestimonyin hair analysis, which is now regarded as unreliable.
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