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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

It wasn't sarcastic, and reporters shouldn't quote him credulously about that.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2020

The general reader, even if credulously inclined, is more staggered by a few examples of non-coincidental hallucinations, than confirmed by a pile of coincidental examples. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang




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