witness to something

Examples of witnessing

witnessing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The most plausible explanation for our -ic and -ical pickle is that we are witnessing language change at work: a messy but fascinating business.
For their legitimacy is extraneous to any form of collective witnessing or spectacular stage management.
After all, linguistics in the past half-century has had the good fortune of witnessing not one revolution, but two.
It is likely that violence victimization, more so than witnessing, may be associated with both isolation and self-estrangement.
More fundamentally, they suggest that we may be witnessing a key stage in a transformation of social policy discourse.
In this sense, the changes we are witnessing are evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
What we are witnessing is the replacement of bureaucracy by competitive politics : re-politicisation in a dual key.
Which is in essence how taxonomic autobiography could work, a process of witnessing which names the subject into objective being.
Of the remaining third, one stopped pulling the chains altogether for 5 days and another for 12 days after witnessing the shock of the object.
In experimental paradigms, rhesus monkey subjects also pressed a bar to avoid witnessing the shock of a conspecific object.
We are witnessing two different styles of learning, which have been defined as 'linear' and 'by immersion'.
Further, witnessing partner violence in later developmental periods may compromise the child's contemporaneous adaptation as was found in the middle childhood years.
Why are certain epochs characterised by hegemonic systems, when in others one has the impression of witnessing theoretical anarchy?
It can thus be said that we are witnessing the routinisation of multiparty elections.
Most recently, however, we are witnessing first attempts to challenge this 'icing thesis'.
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