believed
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In 2024, the Columbia team showed that the amount of microplastics in commercially-available bottled drinking water was 10 to 100 times greater than previously believed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Several of the students said their friends had stopped reading books, and they believed it would eventually damage society as a whole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The Worcestershire village of Inkberrow is believed to have inspired the show's fictional village of Ambridge, while The Old Bull Inn is closely associated with the show's pub, The Bull.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
After one of his patients died, Stephen Hibbs believed A.I. could have saved him—at least, at first.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
“All these tests and tubes,” said Tante Jans, who believed in them implicitly, “what do they really prove?”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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