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Witnessed in sentence

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This is a mass drowning of 15,000 wildebeests that I witnessed in the Maasai Mara two years ago.
In reality, participants had witnessed a peer cheat, someone who was actually part of our research team and was allegedly on academic probation.
As I witnessed my father's body being swallowed by fire, I sat by his funeral pyre and wrote.
Let's take it this way: when you're busy solving mathematical equations, and you are memorizing poetry, you forget the violence that you witnessed back home.
I call them my ghost, and by having witnessed their suffering from close, you take a bit of that suffering on yourself.
But at the end of eight days with these women in the summer of 2011, he told his fellow Ranger, "We have just witnessed history.
And during one of our conversations, I witnessed an interaction that changed my life forever.
Now remember, I was the only man in this group, so when I witnessed this, I went, "Oh no." (Laughter) And somebody said, "Well what was that reaction?"
I witnessed how these critical challenges contributed to an already polarized Egyptian society, but this is not just about Egypt.
Of course, that's what happens, and you know this because you have witnessed events like this countless times.
The world first witnessed the extent of Mansa Musa's wealth in 1324 when he took his pilgrimage to Mecca.
The mayor of Bamako, who witnessed the event, called the burning of the manuscripts "a crime against world cultural heritage."
As we humans continue to maintain our role as the leading predator on earth, I've witnessed and photographed many of these ripple effects firsthand.
The six-year-old Licinia witnessed the spectacle, never suspecting that a few days later, she'd be chosen as the next Vestal Virgin.
But as I witnessed this temple of finance come crashing down before my eyes, I knew that even the best job couldn't save me.
For the first time ever, African pain and African aspiration has the ability to be witnessed by those who can empathize with it the most: other Africans.
Another idea that's one of my personal favorites is that we had just witnessed an interplanetary space battle and the catastrophic destruction of a planet.
And with that understanding, you should have witnessed, in fact, part of you were, the spread of ingenuity and excitement that went through, first through nonnational governments, the private sector, captains of industry, insurance companies, investors, city leaders, faith communities, because they all began to understand, this actually can be in their interest.
I do have terrible nightmares because of all that I witnessed during war times, especially these lifeless bodies of young children.
(Gun shots) Since 2012, the world has witnessed the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice and literally countless other unarmed black citizens at the hands of the police, who frequently walk away with no punishment at all.
And I think it was best witnessed when Thomas was playing the music as we came in the room today.
We spent three days studying it, and nothing could have prepared me for what I witnessed during our shoot day.
What I witnessed was unimaginable.
When I read about heterogeneous urbanism in other parts of the world, involving ethnic neighborhoods in British cities or around Paris or Brussels, I recognize the beginning of the kind of instability we have witnessed so disastrously here in Syria.
But just a couple years later, I witnessed and experienced a lot of incivility in my first job out of college.
Brandon shared the story of a young man from Brownsville who had witnessed violence firsthand, by witnessing a man being thrown off of a roof.
I soon witnessed boys like them killing one another in conflicts between rival groups.
We've all been in situations where we've witnessed something wrong and didn't speak up.
I witnessed my brothers and my siblings continuously stopped and frisked by law enforcement.
She worried that the violence we witnessed would overtake our lives; that our poverty meant that the neighbors with whom we lived and shared space would harm us.
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