firsthand
Example Sentences
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“This chasm between the game and its audience,” Mr. Klosterman writes, “is so vast that most people obsessed with football have no firsthand perspective on the object of their desire.”
When company executives and board members make big stock buys, investors often take it as a sign that insiders with firsthand knowledge believe the stock is undervalued and poised to rise.
Yet the words of one scientist, over a possible landslide and eruption, were hard to reconcile with the evidence the mountain was providing firsthand.
From Literature
“There’s a long waitlist ahead of me,” said Quintanilla, who works as an early childhood and education specialist in Cheviot Hills and knows the issue firsthand.
From Los Angeles Times
In “The Widow,” scenes about gambling are informed at least in part by firsthand knowledge.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
