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The phrase "second-hand information" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a piece of information that has been passed along through multiple sources before you receive it, usually with a lack of certainty about its accuracy. For example: "We only have second-hand information about the suspect, so we can't be sure it's entirely accurate."
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Don't accept second-hand information.
The death counts remain estimates from officials citing conflicting and sometimes second-hand information.
Chancellor Birgeneau was in China at the time and was responding to second-hand information.
So we are careful to avoid repeating second-hand information, such as unsourced comment reported by other news outlets.
"Until we verify — or until the story begins to have consequences — it's second-hand information," he wrote.
There is no alternative to relying on second-hand information, such as photographs issued by anti-vivisection groups.
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The fourth came from a trusted source who was also passing on second hand information.
No sister divulged more than scattered scraps of "second hand" information, presumably because if she knew too much it would undermine her claim not to have been present.
We have frustratingly little first-hand information.
So it is human intelligence -- first-hand information from American spies and foreign agents -- that matters.
Just a radio host who relied on third-hand information from her assistant.
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