first-hand
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Cat said that while many teenagers shun spending time with their parents, she knows first-hand how lonely it is to not have your parents around.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Working in food truck businesses has given Ramirez first-hand knowledge of how to efficiently lay out a mobile kitchen and set up new food vendors for success before they even pick up a knife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Williams has first-hand experience of Mbappe from his own playing days with Wales.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
It's just one of the original documents including original maps, correspondence and first-hand accounts, to feature in the exhibition at the UK's National Archives in southwest London which opens on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
The women explained that they had been nurses at the Sudbury hospital and saw the treatments and “volunteer studies” first-hand.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
