as in convinced
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as in accepting
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 thinking
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 believing
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Apr. 2026
Born in Vienna in 1929, Gaston grew up believing his father to be a railroad worker and only later discovered that that man was in fact his stepfather.
—Simon Akam, Vanity Fair, 2 Apr. 2026
Everyone knows what happens — believing Juliet to be dead, Romeo takes actual poison and kills himself, causing Juliet to stab herself to death after waking up next to her lover’s lifeless corpse.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
The mother in this case, believing the thief may be a teenager, is hoping city services and programs can step in to help them.
—Conor Wight, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Moments later, there was the scene of UConn coach Dan Hurley's mom — no professional lip readers needed — also not quite believing that shot went in.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
My Eastern European great-grandparents met in Palestine in the 1920s but chose New York, believing America offered a safer future.
—Arielle Kaden, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
After serving at Camp Hansen in Okinawa, he was sent to Vietnam in 1966, believing he was set for military glory.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2026
General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cautioned Trump in the run-up to the invasion, but the president dismissed the warning, believing that Iran would capitulate instead.
—Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
The non-believing partner may start to emotionally withdraw from the other, purely out of self-preservation.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
NewsNation is reporting that investigators initially rushed to judgment, believing Nancy Guthrie had wandered off.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Apr. 2026
Born in Vienna in 1929, Gaston grew up believing his father to be a railroad worker and only later discovered that that man was in fact his stepfather.
—Simon Akam, Vanity Fair, 2 Apr. 2026
Everyone knows what happens — believing Juliet to be dead, Romeo takes actual poison and kills himself, causing Juliet to stab herself to death after waking up next to her lover’s lifeless corpse.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
The mother in this case, believing the thief may be a teenager, is hoping city services and programs can step in to help them.
—Conor Wight, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Moments later, there was the scene of UConn coach Dan Hurley's mom — no professional lip readers needed — also not quite believing that shot went in.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
My Eastern European great-grandparents met in Palestine in the 1920s but chose New York, believing America offered a safer future.
—Arielle Kaden, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
After serving at Camp Hansen in Okinawa, he was sent to Vietnam in 1966, believing he was set for military glory.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2026
General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cautioned Trump in the run-up to the invasion, but the president dismissed the warning, believing that Iran would capitulate instead.
—Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for believing
Adjective
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Tommie and her family were later convinced to move to the federal Indian reservation in what is now Hollywood, according to a Sun Sentinel news article from 2015.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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Friedman, best known for his work on economic mobility with the Harvard economist Raj Chetty, has become convinced that the most important thing a student gets from an Ivy Plus education isn’t instruction or prestige or even connections.—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Only time will, but Rivers seems at peace with accepting the idea of calling it a career sooner than later.—
James Jackson,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Instead of blindly accepting all incoming data, each robot or vehicle evaluates the reliability of information received from other agents.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Apr. 2026
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The mindset is unbalanced, with too many players thinking about attacking play rather than anticipating danger.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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That spot closed after a couple of years, but Rodriguez never stopped thinking about barbecue.—
Connie Ogle
April 7,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Gemini May 21 – June 20 The universe favors clear, confident messages.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Apr. 2026
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May 21 – June 20 The universe favors clear, confident messages.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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So far, he's picked up and dropped off about ten people, taking them to anything from doctor's appointments to haircuts.—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Rhyne did not advocate for taking money from the state’s $625 million school voucher program to fund public schools.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
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This involved looking around the restaurant and guessing the names of some of the patrons.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
6 Apr. 2026
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The playful breed-guessing challenge has captivated dog lovers, highlighting how diverse mixed-breed dogs can be—and how much personality can hint at ancestry.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Having stabilized his ship in orbit around the black hole, Dr Hans Reinhardt (a bizarre, OTT performance from Maximilian Schell) now plans to fly into it, assisted by an unquestioning crew of automatons with a very dark origin story.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Supporting Boca Raton’s future does not require unquestioning acceptance of a single vision for redevelopment, especially when public land and public trust are at stake.—
Michelle Grau,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
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Such initiatives are crucial for understanding how our home star emits radiation, a life-and-death concern for human spaceflight missions — particularly for trips to the moon, as NASA is pursuing with the Artemis program, or Mars.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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And if moderation within that system is limited, as some argue, then the challenge for policymakers is not simply negotiation, but understanding the ideology that drives it.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Believing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/believing. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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