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hearsay

[heer-sey] / ˈhɪərˌseɪ /


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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

But there are also a lot of people, especially in big companies and especially in regulated companies—take any of the banks that Hearsay works with— whose job it is to minimize risk.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2016

Then came Tom to the great land of Hearsay.

From The Water-Babies by Kingsley, Charles




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