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But not firsthand".
Thankfully, most Americans do not know, at least not firsthand.
Update: It turns out Trump's Instagram promoted the "first hand" claim by showing Trump looking at a picture of a radar -- which, again, is not firsthand observation.
And then there was the wacky perfection of his description of the later Mailer, with its implications of knowing (not firsthand certainly; Mailer, as far as I know, had never been his patient) the inside story: he had, under stress, found appropriate genre subjects.
Not firsthand, anyway.
It's something I witnessed — not firsthand but I've heard about it and it's scary".
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(Unfortunately, Mosk wasn't able to provide me with a sample of Ideal Media's content-creation skills, so I can't firsthand whether the content in question is actually better than most ads).
Skeptics who had doubted that people would buy expensive art online, which they couldn't see firsthand, hadn't factored in several things.
There were not enough firsthand images to support a documentary and not enough opportunities for dialogue to support a drama.
Often the robberies involved rape, but rape is so taboo that Human Rights Watch did not obtain firsthand accounts from any victims.
Before her, Americans had not heard firsthand Shostakovich's reconditioned version of Mussorgsky's problem opera "Khovanshchina".
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