firsthand
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He believes the audience could be broader than former users, with younger generations embracing the early-2000s aesthetics they never experienced firsthand.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Without firsthand accounts from divers, the author sometimes seems frustrated that she is unable to let them speak for themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Few people alive today have firsthand memories of Owens’s triumph in Berlin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“The ocean is always changing, and that is one of the beauties of commercial fishing—we get the firsthand view.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Cooksey witnessed firsthand the conversion of a skeptic into a believer in April 1938, while he was traveling back east on what amounted to a sales mission.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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