Sentence examples similar to it occurred second-hand from inspiring English sources
When people turn up, it's second-hand.
When an officer sees a driver without a front license plate, or changing lanes without signaling, or running a red light, or (based on a radar gun reading) speeding, the officer isn't conducting an "investigatory" stop to confirm or deny his suspicion that the traffic violation occurred; he knows it occurred, because he saw it first-hand.
We heard about it second-hand.
"I got it in a second-hand shop.
Can it possibly block second-hand games?
We've only seen it "second-hand".
As Salman picked up the first copy and held it in his hand, it occurred to me that this moment was, literally, publication.
On the other hand, it was found that the reaction between AB and Mg2NiH4 cannot proceed directly, but requires phase transition of normal AB to its mobile phase AB* to occur first.
On the other hand, fMRI averages brain activity over seconds, making it impossible to distinguish split-second brain processes or even tell which occur first.
At one point, it occurred to her to try her own hand at it.
