believing

Example Sentences

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Perfetti: On our best day, we’re trying to dupe people into believing that it’s real life.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Hypernormalization — the condition in which the gap between official and lived reality becomes so vast that people simply stop believing anything is true — guts civic life and society from the inside.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

Not believing police had really found it, she asked for a copy, but was told she could not have it until the end of the investigation.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Though none of the photograph’s subjects have been definitively identified, many families have come forward believing that one of those iconic pairs of scuffed-up shoes belonged to their father, their great-great-uncle or other relation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

In the same vein, it stressed the importance of accepting the evidence of your own eyes, rather than believing implicitly the words handed down from past generations—the Ancients were not infallible.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin