eyewitness

as in witness
a person who sees something happen and is able to describe it The police are hoping to locate an eyewitness to the shooting.

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Recent Examples of eyewitness Our information will generally come from officials and eyewitnesses and, at times, other media with a track record of accuracy. The Denver Post, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025 An eyewitness heard the shooting and then saw Byrd standing in the street with a gun while his roommate was on the ground, according to the probable cause document. Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025 During Mayers’ three-week criminal trial, an eyewitness testified that Rocky only had a prop gun firing blanks the night of the confrontation. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025 Left, a still image from an eyewitness video shared on social media of the scene at Ramot Junction, Jerusalem, Israel, after the shooting on September 9, 2025. Robert Birsel shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for eyewitness
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  • Sumpter was charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors, including assault likely to produce great bodily injury, battery with serious bodily injury and dissuading a witness, Butte County public records show.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Patel is due to testify this week before several congressional committees investigating how the FBI handled key evidence and witness accounts in the Kirk case.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Eyewitness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eyewitness. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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