bear witness
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We are there to bear witness, and we are there to hold power to account.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
You have asserted your core First Amendment rights to speak, assemble, associate—to bear witness as a democratic check on an autocratic regime.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
At Santa Croce, the world's largest Franciscan church, Giotto's frescoes bear witness to his innovations, including modern spatial techniques such as foreshortening and human figures imparted with a fleshy weightiness.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
They are difficult because a language is being compelled to testify, and because a poet is asking who can bear witness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
It was a house’s job to know everything about the people within him, to track movements and bear witness to the lives lived.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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