believability

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Recent Examples of believability Interestingly, that adds to the believability as the animals appear even more real and emotions come across even stronger. Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025 Thus a lot of the narrative believability of the main characters’ dilemmas doesn’t always land. Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025 Contemporary generative AI is so seemingly fluent that you are drawn into a mental trap of believability. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for believability
Noun
  • That combination of technical credibility and dealmaking reach has also made Brockman an increasingly influential political player.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Whether the courts view that rift as administrative failure or unlawful negligence may determine the financial futures of a generation of borrowers—and the credibility of the agency that lent to them.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • There were innumerable explanations of varying degrees of plausibility, but that made the image interesting to him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • What makes cinematic depictions of disaster so compelling — when they’re done right, that is — is the uneasy dance between plausibility and fantasy.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While the co-stars didn’t address the bullying report on the red carpet, Stranger Things creators Ross and Matt Duffer and director Shawn Levy were each asked about its veracity.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But she was fired some five months later, after raising questions in a meeting with auditors about the veracity of the toll-collection data.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025

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“Believability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/believability. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.

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