eyewitness account

collocation in English

meaningsofeyewitnessandaccount

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eyewitness
noun[C]
uk
/ˈaɪˌwɪt.nəs/us
/ˈaɪˌwɪt.nəs/
a person who saw something happen, for example, a crime or ...
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account
noun
uk
/əˈkaʊnt/us
/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofeyewitnessandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And yet virtually the entire episodes of betrayal that he describes are based on two highly dubious sources, neither of which is aneyewitnessaccount.
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As already noted, it is not aneyewitnessaccount.
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I believe that hiseyewitnessaccountis particularly important.
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According to aneyewitnessaccountof the marriage ceremony, she was already unconscious when it took place.
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However,eyewitnessaccountof the total number of deaths is much higher.
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Myeyewitnessaccountwould record the barbarous acts, and also show the way to stop them.
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There is no knowneyewitnessaccountof this incident and the earliest retelling of it was printed 37 years later.
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She kept a detailed diary that remains a leadingeyewitnessaccountof her husband's colorful career.
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According to oneeyewitnessaccount, the victim was concerned about being properly secured after boarding the ride.
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Reviewers have nevertheless had difficulty reading it as aneyewitnessaccount.
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Aneyewitnessaccountof the battle was written by him.
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Hiseyewitnessaccountof the famous conflict provided a descriptive and informative rendition of the battle.
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According to aneyewitnessaccount, the bodies were dumped into the canal.
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Eyewitness accounts also assist the development of the mental imagery needed to reconstruct the progression of events in one's own mind.
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His first work is considered more reliable than his second work due to its nature of being aneyewitnessaccountof the events that occurred in his home town.
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This helps explain the vast number of eyewitness accounts published as pamphlets or in the periodical press.
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We need the interviews, the eyewitness accounts, the thoughts of the participants.
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Individual histories are extracted from the official list of 400 participants together with eyewitness accounts.
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They retain the quality of eyewitness accounts, but they assume a distance between event and text that can be bridged only by retrospection.
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