believe

1
as in to accept
to regard as right or true only the most naive car buyer would have believed the salesman's claim that the dealership was actually losing money on the deal

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Recent Examples of believe Rosenblatt doesn't believe New York will fire Glenn during the season or in the offseason. Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025 Skinwalkers are believed to be those who have committed unspeakable acts, gaining dark powers in return. Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025 Tenants who believe minimum housing code violations exist should call 311. Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025 The franchise is believed to be centering its search on Brondello. Ben Pickman, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for believe
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Verb
  • An examiner shall have authority to accept such payment from any person authorized by this Act to make an application for listing, and shall issue a receipt for such payment.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Bills have committed 35 penalties, 30 of them accepted for 209 yards.
    Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Tom also learned from Maeve that Robbie and Cliff (Raúl Castillo) thought the Episode 4 drug meetup was going down at a different park than the FBI sting operation was set to take place at.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Brad’s choice is always thinking about who is the person that is going to make this experience a more enjoyable one, rather than who is the best person for the job.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trade patterns and alliances may shift but great companies understand the importance of rotating across geographies to develop talent for leadership roles.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Lyra’s quest to understand Dust brings her into confrontation with human and other worldly forces who champion moral absolutism over imagination, ignorance over knowledge, authoritarianism over free will and cold, disinterested rationality over empathy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Frankly, there had been speculation for years, entire Reddit threads guessing about Hemsley’s sexuality.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Gosh, guess all that talk about Antifa and George Soros money is a myth.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So grab a plate, settle in, and let these films take you back to the yard—where the music never stops, the bonds run deep, and every Homecoming feels like family coming home again.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Keen to learn the club’s culture and history, Cifuentes took a tour of the city and stadium with club historian John Hutchinson.
    Rob Tanner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That said, hard to imagine Burks would be ready to play so quickly.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Then, imagine those color-changing mountains reflected in the briny water of desert salt flats, a mirage that ripples when local flamingos fly by in twos and threes.
    Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Wouldn’t it be considered colonial literature instead?
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • One of two vice-chairmen of the commission, the general is the third-most powerful commander of the People’s Liberation Army and has been considered a close associate of President Xi Jinping, the army’s commander-in-chief.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Believe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/believe. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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