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- noun Plural form of
hearsay .
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Examples
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Negative attitudes and hearsays should not discourage an affiliate marketer from pursuing what he has to in order to make life better for himself and for everyone concerned.
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Was that irony or do people actually write vague hearsays as proof?
George W. Bush’s legacy. LuLu 2008
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One of the most noteworthy were hearsays that the president is allegedly ill and is about to resign soon; that the president's alleged double is currently replacing him; that after Astana celebrations the country's economy will collapse, the national currency will be ruined; that the parliament will be dissolved; and finally that Almaty will be striken by the destroying earthquake etc.
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Many are hearsays, and rumours, from Thai leftists working in the government.
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Many are hearsays, and rumours, from Thai leftists working in the government.
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JOE MANCHIN (D), WEST VIRGINIA: What happens now is, you have a lot of theories, a lot of hearsays.
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But I didn't think I needed to go around responding to leaks or rumors or innuendoes or hearsays or half truths ...
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Unless bitmanster and anon can show me evidence to prove me wrong, instead of rehashing their own bigoted perception and quoting hearsays.
Top defense expenditure of the world Sun Bin 2005
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Haldimand told Nairne to rebuke the officers sternly for combining to subvert authority, for disrespect to their superiors, and for refusing, on the basis of futile reports and hearsays, to serve with Mackinnon.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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I shall not contradict the accounts of venerable antiquity about the crocodiles of the Nile, who fall upon men and devour them; who cross the roads, and make a slippery path upon them to trip passengers, and make them slide into the river; who counterfeit the voice of an infant, to draw children into their snares; neither shall I contradict the travellers who have {255} confirmed those stories from mere hearsays.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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