bear witness
idiom
1
: to show that something exists or is true
—+ to
His success bears witness to the value of hard work.
Rising ticket sales bear witness to the band's popularity.
2
formal
: to make a statement saying that one saw or knows something
asked to bear witness to the facts
She was accused of bearing false witness at the trial.
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That’s what happened on July 11: a scout patrol spotted ICE agents and tipped off hundreds of people who showed up at the Glass House Farm to bear witness to the ICE raid.
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Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
And while systemic change and scaling effective solutions depend on policy change, such policy change is informed by personal experience, bearing witness, and advocacy.
—David Hessekiel, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
His legacy is to expose, provoke, and bear witness through art, to the realities of a troubled, yet beautiful, world.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
The exhibition also features landscape photography by J. Henry Fair, which bears witness to flat, expansive wetlands of coastal South Carolina and sets the scene of the raid.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
And while systemic change and scaling effective solutions depend on policy change, such policy change is informed by personal experience, bearing witness, and advocacy.
—David Hessekiel, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
His legacy is to expose, provoke, and bear witness through art, to the realities of a troubled, yet beautiful, world.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
The exhibition also features landscape photography by J. Henry Fair, which bears witness to flat, expansive wetlands of coastal South Carolina and sets the scene of the raid.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for bear witness
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“Bear witness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bear%20witness. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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