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credulously

ADVERB
naively
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ProPublica also credulously cited the yarn about the sick WIV researchers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

Prosecutors say Danchenko should have been more forthcoming about his own sources and that if he had done so, the FBI would not have treated the dossier as credulously as it did.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

But figures including Ellen DeGeneres and “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah stoked the phenomenon more credulously.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021

Through the Safdies’ eyes, we watch Howard fondly but not quite credulously.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019

His own attainments have been overrated, and posterity has too credulously believed all that admiring and interested courtiers chose to invent in his praise.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird




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