credulous

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Recent Examples of credulous The credulous faith that these superpowers will voluntarily settle for some form of peaceful coexistence, if only they are sufficiently propitiated with concessions, is naive and dangerous. Michael Miklaucic, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2025 The Athletic has become a bit of a shill for 115 FC, seemingly quite credulous in the face of the overwhelming evidence.. much of which comes from their own emails. Sam Lee, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025 My problem here was being too credulous of polls of hypothetical events. Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2025 In that event, only the credulous will consider U.S. commitments credible. Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019 See All Example Sentences for credulous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for credulous
Adjective
  • Their attempts at political discourse often veered toward the group speaking in vague, naïve universalisms.
    Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
  • At times on Saturday, Bremen were terribly naive, exhibiting all the fragility expected of a team built from inexperienced players.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Rather than feeling triumphant at how believable ELIZA was, Weizenbaum was depressed by how gullible people seemed to be.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Teenagers, despite our best efforts to educate them in open-minded ways, are gullible and therefore vulnerable.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Unless more Democrats start being realistic, many more innocent people will unfortunately continue to suffer.
    Christopher Tremoglie, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But for now, the cost to implement what is still an unproven and immature AI solution at a small business is too prohibitive.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • When first released, Marfenin’s hydrozoan medusae are immature.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025

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“Credulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/credulous. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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