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.

Examples of bear witness in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web These installations will bear witness to big Marine Corps battles of recent decades – Fallujah, Ramadi, the hard exit from Afghanistan. Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2024 There’s no substitute for getting people to go see this and come back and bear witness to it. Dylan Scott, Vox, 19 Sep. 2024 Um, and to hold space for that and to make room for complicated grief, for soul nostalgia, for, um, for bearing witness. Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2024 On an early September day in 1622, a large group of Christians gathered on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, to bear witness. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024 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 2 Oct. 2024.

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