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English word

witness

B2Frequent NGSL-2
UK /ˈwɪtnəs/US /ˈwɪtnəs/
noun

a person who sees something happen and is able to describe it to other people

verb

to see something happen (typically a crime or an accident)

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Jensen Huang's Speech at Caltech
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Because finally, the industry realized the incredible effectiveness of accelerated computing at precisely the time that we're witnessing computing inflation after several decades.

Jensen Huang's Speech at Caltech

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