thirdhand

I learned, at thirdhand, of his investigations into the rock fall and John's death.

"So basically you're talking thirdhand information- the old telephone game.

But she had to rely on secondhand and thirdhand sources to get the news.

The social worker transgressed by running to the principal with this thirdhand story.

A few languages distinguish between secondhand and thirdhand information sources.

Whoever wrote this Gospel obviously got the information at least secondhand, maybe thirdhand.

It's hard to glean the tenor of someone's golf game through second- and thirdhand sources.

Travnicek sat on a thirdhand plastic chair, a cigarette in his hand.

It's tough trying to follow Gamay's track based on second or thirdhand accounts."

"We're going to get the 800," he said, "and we believe, based on thirdhand information, that he has not totally ruled this thing out yet."

When our ancestors left Earth on an aged thirdhand tub, not a single human scientist understood its workings.

She sounds like a little girl describing something she has heard about thirdhand, or has invented.

"I'm offering two billion in cash, and first dibs on a thirdhand industrial fax.

"Your job isn't to come up with a wild hypothesis basedon second- and thirdhand information.

Mr. Pavarotti's tactic would change the process to a thirdhand experience of a secondhand event.

Always thirdhand information.

Pundits are reduced to flogging thirdhand and fourthhand rumors.

Barely a month ago, the offworlders had seemed little more than a distant idea, something that other people spoke of second-or thirdhand.

Yet she must be believed for this was no second or thirdhand report passed on by yileibe fargi.

Everything was second-or thirdhand, and related to events that transpired- if they transpired at all- thousands of years ago."

"It's a thirdhand rumour," Augustus said.

"A thirdhand, third-rate, Third World neutral vessel.

Secondhand smoke is harmful, too, and there's mounting evidence that even thirdhand smoke or just being in an environment where people have smoked is dangerous.

She was dressed in thirdhand clothing-a shabby baseball cap, a pale blue quilted jacket, and heavy boots two sizes too large.

However, the new manifestations apparently had to do with lights, and, though she was hearing the tale about thirdhand, there were two separate tales, yet similarities in both.