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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
witness .
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Examples
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Besides the oil, Pellegrin tells his grandchildren the most disturbing thing he's witnessed is the slow, methodical destruction of the marshes, the lifeblood of the Gulf fisheries.
Rocky Kistner: An Old Man of the Sea Talks About Oil Threats in the Gulf Rocky Kistner 2010
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Besides the oil, Pellegrin tells his grandchildren the most disturbing thing he's witnessed is the slow, methodical destruction of the marshes, the lifeblood of the Gulf fisheries.
Rocky Kistner: An Old Man of the Sea Talks About Oil Threats in the Gulf Rocky Kistner 2010
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And this is why I don't declare as a Dem, despite being a crazy liberal: how is it, after the behavior we just witnessed from the GOP over the HCR Bill, that the Dems can say something like this and make me think they might have been suprised that the GOP enagged in a misinformation campaign to skew public perception of pending legislation with misplaced fear and anger?
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I was at the G20 protests - admittedly some of the people there were intent on causing trouble, but I think the unprofessionalism that I witnessed from the few police officers that day caused much of it.
London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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What youve just witnessed is the problem and the reason Im running as an independent.
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What I have witnessed is the increasing number of women coming forward who have had abortions.
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Plus, what I have witnessed is a consistent tendancy to define R&C and negotiated rates on the current medicaid accepted rates which are AT MOST 10% of the lowest cost for a specific service by a provider.
Wonk Room » AHIP Attempts to Portray Doctors as Villains 2009
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If memory serves correct, this horrific act I witnessed from the top of my apt. building nine years ago was committed, admittedly by Al Qaeda, on the basis of "jihad" or "holy WAR" and was an attack on our sovereign land.
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[ "Moon bombing"] may also trigger conflict with known extraterrestrial civilizations on the moon as reported on the moon in witnessed statements by U.S. astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and in witnessed statements to NSA (National Security Agency) photos and documents regarding an extraterrestrial base on the dark side of the moon.
Boing Boing 2009
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Crist seized on the exchange to cast himself as the adult in a proverbial sandbox: What you've just witnessed is the problem and the reason I'm running as an independent.
Marco Rubio takes fire from Meek, Crist in Florida Senate debate Philip Rucker 2010
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