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hearsay
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  • Your Honor, this is the rankest and purest sort of hearsay!†  (source)
  • His work had always been based on the symbolic equivalent of fossils-ancient documents and historical hearsay-but this image before him was today.†  (source)
  • Hearsay.†  (source)
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  • Since my grandfather's business was shoes, this made no sense to me; but my grandfather died before I was born—his famous decision, to not unionize his shoeshop, is only hearsay to me.†  (source)
    hearsay = heard through another rather than directly
  • In court, that's nothing more than hearsay.†  (source)
  • There's been a lot of hearsay admitted as evidence.†  (source)
  • Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.†  (source)
  • The women were so opposed to getting dunked in the river, even on hearsay, they all kept their children extra far from the church that day.†  (source)
  • If Carrie had not been an only child, we might have at least hearsay reports of dozens of other minor occurrences.†  (source)
  • Since I had neither a driver's license nor a girlfriend, I knew both those things only by hearsay.†  (source)
  • Call looked north across the dusty flats, as if estimating in his mind's eye the great rise of the plains, stretching even farther than hearsay, away and beyond the talk of men.†  (source)
  • I proceeded to ask him if he knew the fastest way to Bonthe, an island in the south of Sierra Leone and one of the safest places at that time, according to hearsay.†  (source)
  • Hearsay.†  (source)
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