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 This could have impacted the jury’s consideration of other trial evidence, including Velazquez’s alibi, the fact that no evidence connected him to the crime, and that the eyewitnesses provided inconsistent descriptions. Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2024 There was no forensic, eyewitness or video evidence that provided a direct link between Carter and Markham’s death, Gmoser said. Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024 The details of this major geological event had to be reconstructed because no eyewitnesses observed the event in real time due to the extreme and inhospitable environment of Eastern Greenland. Carly Miller, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 Police spent years searching for a suspect, investigating thousands of leads and releasing multiple composite sketches of the suspect based on eyewitness accounts. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for eyewitness 

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“Eyewitness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eyewitness. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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