Thesaurus results for EYEWITNESS

eyewitness

noun

as in witness

a person who sees something happen and is able to describe it The police are hoping to locate an eyewitness to the shooting.

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Recent Examples of eyewitness On Thursday morning, the New York Post‘s Page Six reported an eyewitness account of the Poker Face star and multihyphenate making a scene aboard a Delta red-eye back to New York after Tuesday night’s premiere event. —

Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026 The American Meteor Society's report shows eyewitnesses strewn throughout the East Coast, including into eastern Pennsylvania. —

Kate Perez, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026 The authors cited the only eyewitness reports by two survivors, which were detailed in a New York Times article earlier this year. —

Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2026 Neither the original two journalistic accounts nor the two other eyewitness accounts mention any giant squids. —

Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for eyewitness

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witness

Noun

Medway mail truck crash Several witnesses from nearby homes and cars called 911 and rushed to help.

— Kristina Rex, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
Detectives identified Heuermann as a suspect in 2022 using a vehicle registration database to connect him to a pickup truck that a witness had reported seeing when one of the victims disappeared in 2010.

— Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026