firsthand
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Flight delays, interminable waits on the tarmac—Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel knows all about travel frustrations firsthand: “You can’t believe you even bothered.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
One of those displaced by the advance was Jamal Abu Miri, a 68-year-old retired land surveyor who understood firsthand that the Yellow Line was more than just an arbitrary marker on a map.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
Few people alive today have firsthand memories of Owens’s triumph in Berlin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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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