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bear witness

[bair wit-nis] / ˈbɛər ˈwɪt nɪs /


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"Only studies like ours offer an overview of these traditions which bear witness to genuine know-how and diverse traditions."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 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

Yet there he stood watching anyway, as if, lacking water, his job now was to bear witness.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs


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