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Princeton's WordNet

  1. firsthandadverb

    received directly from a source

    "firsthand information"

  2. firsthand, at first handadverb

    from the original source; directly

    "I heard this story firsthand"

Wiktionary

  1. firsthandadjective

    Direct, without intermediate stages.

    firsthand knowledge

ChatGPT

  1. firsthand

    Firsthand refers to any information, experience, or perception that is directly obtained or perceived by an individual, instead of relayed or reported through another person. It involves direct observation or participation, without any intermediaries.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of firsthand in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of firsthand in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of firsthand in a Sentence

  1. Lisa Santora:

    We saw firsthand that it wasn't kids who were going to get teachers sick. It was going to be the reverse.

  2. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts:

    On the eve of The Senate Republicans covering up transgressions and spreading misinformation, I can not in good conscience attend a sham State of the Union when I have seen firsthand the damage Donald J. Trump's rhetoric and policies have inflicted on those I love and those I represent.

  3. Rebecca Cutter:

    I don't think that Cape Cod necessarily worse than other places in the country, but Cape Cod was certainly something, cape Cod was sort of the place that I first started hearing about it firsthand.

  4. Greg Abbott:

    Our supposed Border Czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, has yet to even visit the border to see firsthand the impact of the open border policies she has helped implement, even going so far as to claim the border is ‘secure,’ texas will continue sending migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C., until President Biden and Border Czar Harris step up and do their jobs to secure the border.

  5. Dana Hurley:

    This research is telling us that meteoroids are doing some of the work for us and transporting material from the coldest places to some of the boundary regions where astronauts can access it with a solar-powered rover, it's also telling us that what we need to do is get on the surface of one of these regions and get some firsthand data about what's happening.

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