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