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• s  derived from what is primary or original by two intermediate steps
  a thirdhand report
• r  by doubly indirect means
  I got the news thirdhand

• If voters heard the words second- or thirdhand, how could they judge them? Now it's impossible to fib in obscurity.
• You couldn't get to the candidate himself, so you had to take too much second- or even thirdhand.
• In the view of numerous academicians, the anonymous authors of the four Gospels (later conventionally labeled Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were working from second- and thirdhand .

News & Articles

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• Thirdhand smoke causes DNA damage
  A new study has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke -- the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out -- causes significant genetic damage in human cells.
  June 20, 2013 - Science Daily
• Berkeley Lab confirms thirdhand smoke causes DNA damage
  ( DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke -- the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out -- causes significant genetic damage in human cells.
  June 20, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Jack Roush in Kansas City Star
  Lee White sent a message to me, an apology that I received thirdhand that said he wasn't accusing me of cheating - that he didn't mean for it to come out that way and he was sorry,Roush said. "I haven't accepted that because I haven't...