witness
verb (used with object)
to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception.
witnessed
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past participleof witness.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof witness.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
witnessverb (used with object)to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception.
Example Sentences
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AFP witnessed some pushing and shoving between front-row protesters and officers trying to keep the surging crowd away from Jakarta's central Bundaran HI public square, surrounded by businesses and embassies.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Back near San Antonio, Kevin Rogers witnessed this evolution firsthand at Fair Oaks Ranch, which is part of Invited Clubs, a network of more than 150 private clubs executing similar modernizations across its portfolio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
October has witnessed several crises: faltering confidence in the sustainability of the artificial-intelligence boom and chaos in the French bond market are chief among them.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
For Professor Gareth Collins of Imperial College London, the discovery brings a satisfying conclusion to a controversy he witnessed firsthand.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
In her, he saw the same eagerness that he’d witnessed in his mother, a hunger that he was beginning to understand, too.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
