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firsthand

adjective

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Gained directly through personal experience or observation.

The interview provided a firsthand account of the expedition's final day.

Dictionary practice example.

A campus journalist was investigating why a delivery missed the student book fair. Her firsthand account came from watching the driver wait at a locked entrance, rather than hearing the story from another reporter.

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