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hearsay

[heer-sey] / ˈhɪərˌseɪ /


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Hearsay testimony provides “sufficient flexibility to submit the best available evidence from genuine zones of conflict,” General Martins said in a speech to the American Bar Association.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2022

Hearsay can be useful, helping to catch disease outbreaks.

From Washington Times • Nov. 25, 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

The officer in command at Barrackpore, General Hearsay, addressed the troops on parade, explained to them that the cartridges were not prepared with the obnoxious materials supposed, and set forth the groundlessness of their suspicions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various




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