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as in faiths
mental conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon
a belief in UFO's led him to relentlessly scan the nighttime skies
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as in opinions
an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge
it's my belief that the sky is blue because our eyes perceive the color blue easily
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Recent Examples of beliefs
This opens the door to distortions, the possibility of blending details with other experiences and even creating beliefs about events that never actually happened.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Some, in fact, have even been killed for their beliefs.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2026
Intimacy means understanding your partner’s fundamental ideas, beliefs and principles.
—Dr. Cortney Warren, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
Weaver had connections to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and held antisemitic, anti-government beliefs.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 24 Jan. 2026
Costume designer Lissy Turner drapes Parsons in flowy layers and embroidered velvet, conveying everything the audience needs to know about this woman and her kooky, open-minded beliefs.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2026
As her own beliefs begin to take idiosyncratic shape, Lee begins to engage a few followers.
—Mark Olsen, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
One man — one young, confident Portuguese man — clings bravely to his beliefs as the rest of the world falls into groupthink.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
The one issue about which the Ellisons do have deeply held beliefs is Israel.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Some, in fact, have even been killed for their beliefs.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2026
Intimacy means understanding your partner’s fundamental ideas, beliefs and principles.
—Dr. Cortney Warren, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
Weaver had connections to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and held antisemitic, anti-government beliefs.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 24 Jan. 2026
Costume designer Lissy Turner drapes Parsons in flowy layers and embroidered velvet, conveying everything the audience needs to know about this woman and her kooky, open-minded beliefs.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2026
As her own beliefs begin to take idiosyncratic shape, Lee begins to engage a few followers.
—Mark Olsen, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
One man — one young, confident Portuguese man — clings bravely to his beliefs as the rest of the world falls into groupthink.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
The one issue about which the Ellisons do have deeply held beliefs is Israel.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beliefs
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More than a dozen speakers asked Texas’ State Board of Education to include the contributions of people from all cultures, faiths and backgrounds as the board revises state standards for social studies.—
Silas Allen,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Several warned that the promotion of this biblical doctrine will ostracize students of other faiths.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
27 Jan. 2026
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The flow of emotions, friends’ opinions, and experts’ suggestions will result in conflicting but not mutually exclusive objectives.—
Heather L. Locus,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.—
Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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His preference would be to find simpler axioms for quantum mechanics — intuitive principles that would let theorists re-derive the theory in a new form altogether.—
Daniel Garisto,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Nov. 2025
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In other words, as Cleveland tore through the league last season, the players responded to most of the milestones reached with a collective shrug and worn axioms about nothing mattering until the playoffs.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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But for the mother-daughter pair, their minds were on Minneapolis and how federal agents have handled immigration enforcement.—
John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Mescal, Keoghan, Quinn, and Dickinson are each headlining their own respective Beatles film, which will dive deep into the minds of the Liverpudlian lads who changed music forever.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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The authors never claimed to have demonstrated that such reading generates feelings of empathy, though others—including the New York Times—have sometimes confused those high scores as evidence of empathy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Brands are winning by orchestrating feelings, not rooms.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.—
Avi Patel,
Hartford Courant,
30 Jan. 2026
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His recent New Year’s Eve livestreamed special generated more than 30 million views across platforms.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2026
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The filings also reported a variety of materially false refundable credits and other payments including sick and family leave credits, child and dependent care credits, fuel tax credits, IRC Section 1341 credits, and/or false income tax withholdings.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The song also has writing and production credits from Mark Sonnenblick and Ian Eisendrath, known for their work on musicals for stage and screen, and its key features — the story-forward lyrics sung mostly in English and the ascendant, spotlit hook — are built toward those ends.—
Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2026
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Among them was a proposal to bar people with certain criminal convictions from obtaining fireworks licenses.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Rahman denies all corruption allegations, and his prior convictions were quashed by the interim government.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Beliefs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beliefs. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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