believing

Example Sentences

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While losing at home has made things that much tougher, with just one goal in it, United still head to Munich believing a first Champions League semi-final is within their grasp.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

“The problem is we are not believing the cease-fire news, collectively,” Mike Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide, told MarketWatch on Friday.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 28, 2026

The town is not only believing in a three-peat, they are counting on it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Mueller took over at the FBI believing he would focus on bank robberies, drug cases and violent crime, which had been the bread-and-butter of his work as a federal prosecutor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

His silence on the slavery question was strategic, believing as he did that slavery was a cancer on the body politic of America that could not at present be removed without killing the patient.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis