BELIEVES Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

believes

verb

present tense third-person singular of believe

as in accepts

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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as in thinks

to have as an opinion despite the horrors she witnessed and endured, Anne Frank steadfastly believed that "people are really good at heart"

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Recent Examples of believes Tyson said the State Board believes the county’s elections remain secure and that voters should not be concerned. — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 25 July 2026 Harvick, who on May 19th was named to the latest class in the NASCAR Hall Of Fame and will be inducted next January, believes his first Brickyard 400 win on August 3, 2003, served as the launching pad to his Hall of Fame career. — Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026 Related Stories Unlike many Asian festivals competing for world premieres and international attention, Goh believes MIFFest can distinguish itself by strengthening regional collaboration. — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 24 July 2026 But Perel believes that many people are struggling to cope with that precarity. — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 If anything, Haberman believes its next chapter will reward expertise and trust over sheer scale. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 24 July 2026 Dayan believes that there’s a very similar playbook to what Crown is doing with Hanky Panky. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 24 July 2026 Heimbach holds nothing against Bavaro, who was later dropped as a defendant in the lawsuit, but believes justice fell far short for the other two deputies, especially Camara. — Trevor Morgan, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026 In fact, the Yale Budget Lab believes the worst of the global tariff repercussions has already happened. — Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2026

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The restaurant contributes labor, accepts part of the financial risk and gives those ingredients a path to diners.

— Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Emily questions such disregard for men, but eventually accepts it as part of the pact to prioritize herself and her newfound sorority.

— Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 July 2026

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With demand exceeding supply, Pajjuri thinks the company can prioritize higher-value server CPUs, improving product mix while also gaining more pricing power because customers have fewer options.

— Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 23 July 2026
One way midfielder Zorhan Bassong thinks Sporting can avoid those long spells of getting lost in the game is through repetition of situations during training — almost for the sake of repetition.

— Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026

Definition of thinks

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Despite not being a coffee drinker herself, Loyd understands the power of third place, creating connection, community, and a safe place for all to gather.

— Allison Smith, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Variety understands Odom bowed out after the first act and was replaced by Manaia Glassey-Ohlson.

— K.J. Yossman, Variety, 24 July 2026

Definition of understands

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Paramount has agreed to delay acquiring Warner Brothers Discovery until next year as an Oakland federal court considers a high-profile lawsuit from Attorney General Rob Bonta that seeks to block the merger.

— Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
At the time of the announcement, Cecilia Strömblad Brännsten, head of resource use and circularity at H&M, said working with Circ and Lenzing provides a better way forward as the company considers its production strategies.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 23 July 2026

Definition of considers

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Pino is seen as a player who takes risks to progress play up the pitch, offering a slightly different profile to the rest of the squad.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 21 July 2026
His moviegoing sensibility that any casting that takes him far away from the film’s narrative is a negative goes into the red zone with Page, who reunites with Nolan after Inception.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 July 2026

Definition of takes

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That’s certainly the case in the epic poem The Odyssey, which imagines a push and pull between Athena and her uncle Poseidon over the fate of Odysseus.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 July 2026
One imagines Naipaul returning from Jonestown and San Francisco, shaping despair into limber, unforgettable sentences, approaching the absolute terror and humanity of his moment—and none of it mattered.

— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 14 July 2026

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