How to Use lend weight/credence/credibility in a Sentence

lend weight/credence/credibility

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  • The glimpses of all these potential futures, in turn, lend weight to the show’s warnings about the present.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But the legendary British investor has been right more than enough to lend weight to his predictions.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 20 July 2022
  • Any future discovery of these would lend credence to Lykawka and Ito’s claim.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Buyers lend credence to products that have made appearances in the media.
    Colby Flood, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • But people are willing to believe the implausible, or at least lend credence to it.
    Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
  • In the plus column are the following videos from the makers, which show the fan in action and lend credence the power claims.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Flat planes and masonry marks also lend weight to accounts that the artist scavenged stone blocks from Paris building sites.
    Hannah McGivern, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Sometimes the mere act of attendance in a war game can lend credibility to the game’s outcomes.
    Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2023
  • This breakdown does lend credence to sectarian narratives of the war.
    Daniel Corstange, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2016
  • The data lend credence to the notion that Netflix’s slowdown is due at least in part to heavy competition.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
  • Herries and colleagues cite some evidence for non-hominid migrations that may lend weight to this theory.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2020
  • This appears to lend credence to long-running rumors that the new controller grips would utilize a magnetic connection to hold them in place.
    Matt Kamen, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Overall, Biden has struggled early on to lend credence to the central pillars of his candidacy.
    Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • An influencer can amplify your message and lend credibility to your work.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Michael Assaf was one of the first Zionist historians to lend credence to the idea of Palestine.
    Zachary J. Foster, Foreign Affairs, 11 Mar. 2015
  • Bruno also appeared to lend credibility to reports that ULA is up for sale.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • There’s the star-power option, when someone like Benedict Cumberbatch is brought in to lend weight to a production.
    Sebastian Modak, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • Team bios can lend credibility and a sense of personalization, and video testimonials are a great way to build trust in your brand.
    Jason Hennessey, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The findings lend weight to the standard model of cosmology, but could also help physicists to probe where our models of galaxy formation fall down.
    Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 7 May 2014
  • Other metrics also lend credence to the concept that coronavirus activity has slowed.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Of course there are trolls out there, but a great deal of criticism for this show is well-founded and compelling and certainly the falling viewership numbers lend credence to critocs.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Be present in your interactions and lend credence to any questions, concerns or observations your employee has to offer in return.
    Eugene Dilan, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Contamination issues aside, her findings also lend weight to theories of panspermia.
    Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2019
  • Docking says his name is attached to Rize to lend credibility to the company, especially as it got started.
    David Jesse, Freep.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The fossils include intact tree trunks and fern stems, which lend credence to the notion that this was local vegetation, not transported by wind or other elements.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Sunday’s performance will lend credence to the theory that turning to DeVito was a move designed to tank to improve the team’s draft stock.
    Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • These would lend credence to the idea that ancient Egyptians relied on the Nile to transport construction materials for pyramid projects.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
  • This week’s policy assessment by the Federal Reserve, which has held firm against hawkish expectations, could lend weight to bears.
    Ruth Carson, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2021
  • These results lend weight to the researchers’ conjecture that priests resorted to industrial-scale farming and slaughter to harvest the legions of future mummies.
    Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • Many of the questions that top Republicans put to Wray on Wednesday were seemingly designed to lend credence to these theories.
    Dell Cameron, WIRED, 14 July 2023

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