as in plausible
worthy of being accepted as true or reasonable
she had a believable excuse for missing the deadline
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Recent Examples of believable
Tamper with power management or telecommunications and every rumor becomes more believable.
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
Phone scams continue to evolve and appear more believable.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 26 Mar. 2026
This is entirely believable, in the sense that many people take years to recognize abuse.
—Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
The lead role in the Academy Award-winning 1984 film Amadeus went to Tom Hulce because director Miloš Forman felt that Hamill’s fame as Luke Skywalker would prevent him from being a believable Mozart, even though Hamill had played the part on stage.
—Sanat Pai Raikar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
Phone scams continue to evolve and appear more believable.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 26 Mar. 2026
This is entirely believable, in the sense that many people take years to recognize abuse.
—Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
The lead role in the Academy Award-winning 1984 film Amadeus went to Tom Hulce because director Miloš Forman felt that Hamill’s fame as Luke Skywalker would prevent him from being a believable Mozart, even though Hamill had played the part on stage.
—Sanat Pai Raikar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for believable
Adjective
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And then in 1844 came Robert Chambers’s best-selling proto-Darwinist Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which sketched a plausible outline of biological evolution.—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Which is to say, that project did not exactly fly under the radar of plausible deniability.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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Risk assets could still rally even if kinetic attacks continue, provided Hormuz shows credible signs of reopening.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2026
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Candidates to the country’s National Assembly are chosen in local elections, but critics point out that there is no credible opposition, little transparency and all candidates have to belong to the Communist Party.—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC news,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Believable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/believable. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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