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- verb Present participle of
witness .
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Examples
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He's since retreated, emotionally, and now stands there holding signs once a week only as a form of what he calls "witnessing."
The Seattle Times 2011
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I think I can speak from personal experience on this topic having come of age as an activist while working for Greenpeace and witnessing from the inside the media tightrope that modern activist organizations "must" walk.
The Sexual Politics Of Peta John Storhm 2009
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Knowing and witnessing is not the same thing as creating a revolution.
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Anyway, should anyone who might be interested in witnessing chance to click on this comment:
Adaptation just as important as Mitigation | Serendipity 2009
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Knowing and witnessing is not the same thing as creating a revolution� At least outside the mind.
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I re-read the novella version of the story a few weeks before reading the novel as an exercise in witnessing how an author might extend a short story to novel length.
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Everything you are witnessing is just for show, no action.
CNN Poll: North Korea a very serious threat to the U.S. 2009
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I think I can speak from personal experience on this topic having come of age as an activist while working for Greenpeace and witnessing from the inside the media tightrope that modern activist organizations "must" walk.
Archive 2009-01-01 John Storhm 2009
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He was referring to witnessing the impromptu vigils, the makeshift memorials, in public spaces such as the Washington Square and Union Square parks.
Trumping the Terrorists' Rage Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012
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The living metaphor we are witnessing is an eternal one: they were dead (almost three weeks with no sign that they were alive) and have now come back to life; they were lost and are now are found; they were prisoners now set free.
Edward J. Murray: A Moment For Sacred Metaphors: How the Chilean Miners Helped To Rescue Us Edward J. Murray 2010
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