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hearsay
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  • Since I had neither a driver's license nor a girlfriend, I knew both those things only by hearsay.†  (source)
  • There's been a lot of hearsay admitted as evidence.†  (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.†  (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)
  • As I understand it—and I could be wrong; I haven't had the pleasure to meet them yet, this is all hearsay, you understand—but what I have gleaned is that Mrs. Grote is once again with child, and she is looking for a mother's helper.†  (source)
  • It was all hearsay, you know.†  (source)
  • These were chiefly people from the northern suburbs, whose knowledge of the Black Smoke came by hearsay.†  (source)
  • I don't pretend to be intimately acquainted with the mode of living customary in those days at Wuthering Heights: I only speak from hearsay; for I saw little.†  (source)
  • Based on hearsay rather than personal experience?†  (source)
  • But he knew, more from hearsay than from personal experience, that such easy happiness could not last very long.†  (source)
  • It did not seem surprising, all these ghost-ship stories, even if they were only elusive hearsay, because we'd been told the night before that waste is the best-kept secret in the world.†  (source)
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