To speak
Witness
Witness verb - To declare (something) to be true or genuine.
To speak and witness are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "To speak" with "Witness", this terms are similar.
Nearby Words: witnessed, witnessing
Both terms in one sentence
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Ronnie's knowledge of French enables him to speak with a witness in the first episode... and to a witness in a recent one.
Source: Series / Law & Order: UK -
Poking enough holes in a witness' story can be generally expected to draw out that witness' "true form", so to speak.
Source: Franchise / Ace Attorney -
In The Dogs Of Babel, a man goes through extreme (surgical) means to get his dog to speak as it was the only witness to his wife's death.
Source: Make the Dog Testify
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