disbelieve
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Few of the now grown-up McMartin children have spoken publicly, but some have described the pressure to fabricate stories or disbelieve innocent memories in favor of traumatic ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
"What's alarming is that these recordings could also create an environment where many disbelieve even real recordings," says Mohamed Suliman, a researcher at Northeastern University's Civic AI Lab.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023
Mr. Johnston said, “You cannot disbelieve the resurrection based on the historical accounts that we have. It is so well attested.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
“It’s a tour de force. I see no reason to disbelieve it.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
I myself did not know how I could have produced so beautiful a child, and I was proud of her and glad, even when people pretended to disbelieve that I could be her mother.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Anyone who claims not to understand the concept of the poverty-to-prison pipeline or disbelieves the word of the wrongfully convicted cannot watch this show and still legitimately hold on to that illusion.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2022
"Categorising the claims that have been made as 'distorted, and in many cases false' creates a company atmosphere that disbelieves victims," it reads.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2021
Categorizing the claims that have been made as “distorted, and in many cases false” creates a company atmosphere that disbelieves victims.
From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2021
Whether one believes or disbelieves the allegations, the individuals’ reactions were opposite.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2020
One can't tell why one believes certain things and disbelieves others.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
People with long Covid feel "forgotten, unheard, disbelieved, isolated", barrister Anthony Metzer KC told the Covid-19 Inquiry last month on behalf of advocacy groups for people with the condition.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2023
The women were determined to speak up together, rather than be silenced and disbelieved, said another plaintiff, Cherryl Jackson-Williams.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
Yet, 16 of the 17 people who reported brain fog in our study described feeling disbelieved.
From Scientific American ● May 12, 2023
The one who is ignored, mistreated and disbelieved.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2022
Anaxagoras believed in a special mind substance and disbelieved in the existence of atoms.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The other disbelieving intellectuals continued to write and publish but seemed to make less news by their pronouncements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Sheen’s remarkable performance dominates this compelling three-part Amazon film, A Very Royal Scandal, as he captures a prince angry and disbelieving at his collapsing status.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024
They look disbelieving but I walk with them to Plankinton and show them an address on a seemingly abandoned building and explain the numbering system again.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2024
“It’s different,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said with a disbelieving laugh.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
The lighted windows and the music and the terrified, disbelieving look on a cat’s face when he was vanquished?
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
Vocabulary lists containing disbelieve
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