attesters

noun

plural of attester
as in witnesses

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  1. witnesses
  2. reporters
  3. informants
Noun
  • The Booker Prize-winning Rushdie, now 79, is expected to be among the first witnesses, again describing the stabbing that nearly killed him and left him blind in one eye.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
  • The Jackson County sheriff’s department has interviewed dozens of witnesses and is working with the FBI to investigate the case, Mississippi’s Sun Herald reported.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
Definition of witnesses
Noun
  • Daily newspapers keep scores of advance obituaries on file so reporters aren’t scrambling on deadline when an important person in the community dies.
    — Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 26 July 2026
  • The Giants had shielded them from reporters until Saturday, when the team gave The Athletic permission to ask them a few questions with Villegas providing the translation.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Definition of reporters
Noun
  • The Justice Department unveiled this case against it, essentially arguing that SPLC had been defrauding its donors by paying informants within far-right groups who were infiltrating those groups.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
  • In 2020, for example, the high court ruled that Muslim men who claimed that their religious rights were violated for being placed on the government’s no-fly list after refusing to serve as FBI informants could sue the FBI agents for damages.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 June 2026
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