hearsay
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Hearsay can be useful, helping to catch disease outbreaks.
From Washington Times • Nov. 25, 2020
Hearsay, for example, was admissible in Maryland courts, providing a way for enslaved plaintiffs to offer evidence of their ancestry when a paper trail didn’t exist.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2020
"Hearsay puts a lot of people in jail," one Democratic source told Fox News.
From Fox News • Nov. 12, 2019
Hearsay accounts that I furtively asked others about her life away from the office are simply untrue.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2018
Chapter 5.XXXI.—How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay, who kept a school of vouching.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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