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Eyewitness


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
  • (2) Asylum seekers detained in the family and single women camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests, Guardian Australia has been told by eyewitness sources.
  • (3) The briefing points, obtained by the AP, added that "there are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations" but did not mention eyewitness accounts that blamed militants alone.
  • (4) Eyewitnesses said the driver was wearing a black beret, indicating that he was not a member of the Parachute Regiment.
  • (5) Among the others killed were embassy guards – eyewitnesses said they had tried to stop a suicide bomber riding a motorbike near the building's gates, which were destroyed in the attack.
  • (6) Citing testimony from eyewitnesses and survivors, the UN said Islamic State gunmen arrived at the front gate in a group of pick-up trucks.
  • (7) The strikes in the area continued on Saturday as dozens of families fled, security officials and eyewitnesses said.
  • (8) G4S managers “lost control” o f some of their local employees who also joined the violence, according to eyewitness statements .
  • (9) The revamp of Ten’s news brand as Eyewitness News , beginning on Monday night, has been overshadowed by the shock resignation of the broadcaster’s high-profile journalist, Hamish Macdonald.
  • (10) Eyewitnesses said that ambulances could not immediately reach the scene of the attack, and that police further obstructed the quick evacuation of the wounded from the square where the explosions occurred.
  • (11) "In finished reports after September 11, 2012, intelligence analysts inaccurately referred to the presence of a protest at the Mission facility before the attack based on open source information and limited intelligence, but without sufficient intelligence or eyewitness statements to corroborate that assertion," the committee wrote.
  • (12) I walked into the newsroom and there was an eyewitness account making allegations [against Ukraine] and analysis, if you can call it, from our correspondent in the studio.
  • (13) 9.08am BST Reuters has more on the pro-Russian incursion in Slaviansk Six armoured personnel carriers entered the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk, on Wednesday with the lead vehicle bearing the Russian flag, a Reuters eyewitness said.
  • (14) Five staged-crime experiments were conducted to examine the effect of lineup biases and sequential presentation on eyewitness recognition accuracy.
  • (15) An eyewitness account of scenes at the Hotel Bibby, the floating accommodation block used by contractors on Manus, published by Guardian Australia on Tuesday , describes wounded asylum seekers being taken by G4S personnel on ute to a makeshift hospital.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doris Davis, eyewitness to the shooting of another man in the St Louis area.
  • (17) One eyewitness, Michael Kiefer of Arizona Republic, counted the prisoner gasping 660 times .
  • (18) The performance of those subjects who were given anxiety-arousing instructions at encoding and retrieval and who scored high on the Test Anxiety Scale (TAS; Sarason, 1972) was less accurate on an eyewitness task than was that of the subjects who scored low on the scale.
  • (19) Eyewitnesses in Sana’a said Houthi fighters and allied military units were repositioning some anti-aircraft units at police stations, causing panic among residents who fear they will become targets for air strikes.
  • (20) The present study investigated the relationship between individual differences in anxiety and eyewitness performance.

See


Definition:

  • (n.) A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
  • (n.) Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
  • (v. t.) To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after.
  • (v. t.) To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.
  • (v. t.) To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.
  • (v. t.) To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
  • (v. i.) To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.
  • (v. i.) Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.
  • (v. i.) To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
  • (2) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (4) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (5) My boyfriend and I have been seeing each other for two years.
  • (6) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (8) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (9) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
  • (10) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
  • (11) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
  • (12) If Deckard cannot see himself in the other, Roy can.
  • (13) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (14) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
  • (15) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
  • (16) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
  • (17) Stimuli presented to this island could be detected and discriminated, although the subject reported he did not see them.
  • (18) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
  • (19) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (20) We conclude by looking at several specific models and seeing how the results relate to previous work.

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