believing

Example Sentences

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PARIS—Jannik Sinner landed in Paris last week believing he was safe from his biggest rival.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Before the removal, Adam had voluntarily offered to contribute toward Brian’s expenses as a neighborly gesture, despite believing he had no legal liability.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 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

“It didn’t matter. She couldn’t stop believing it.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

For Glanvill, and others like him, the new science was intended to serve as a bulwark against materialism and atheism; being modern and believing in witchcraft went hand in hand.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton