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[wit-nis] / ˈwɪt nɪs /






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The day before, Panish had hammered the surgeon on the witness stand, asking: “Do you admit your wife killed the two kids? Do you admit it? Yes or no?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Joshua Amissah got up from his seat in the witness box and stepped away from the interpreter by his side.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Even if you never bore witness to that outrageous performance, its elemental alchemy vibrates in the band’s most popular songs, each of them calling to us with purpose.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

“No one / bears witness for the / witness,” he writes in the 1967 poem “Ashglory.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

At times, too, she was needed as an expert witness for trials.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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