as in skepticism
refusal to accept something as true
their story explaining their absence was met with frank disbelief
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Recent Examples of disbelief
Alba walked off in disbelief, holding his head in his hands.
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Stuart James, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Two years after opening Smoke Queen Barbecue’s first brick-and-mortar location in Garden Grove, Winnie Yee, one of the country’s few female pitmasters, still sometimes catches herself looking around the restaurant in disbelief.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
Here, in this new context, their large eyes did not seem wide with their usual wonder but swollen with grief and disbelief.
—Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
DeChambeau, stunned by the shot, turned and looked at his caddie in disbelief.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
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Stuart James, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Two years after opening Smoke Queen Barbecue’s first brick-and-mortar location in Garden Grove, Winnie Yee, one of the country’s few female pitmasters, still sometimes catches herself looking around the restaurant in disbelief.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
Here, in this new context, their large eyes did not seem wide with their usual wonder but swollen with grief and disbelief.
—Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
DeChambeau, stunned by the shot, turned and looked at his caddie in disbelief.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disbelief
Noun
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Chastain ended the lengthy note with a hint of skepticism about whether the series would ever air at all.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2026
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The data so far supports some of Lehane’s skepticism about the extreme predictions.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Morgan has found a lot of success wheeling-and-dealing in his first two drafts in the general manager seat, no doubt.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2026
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That was compounded by doubts, both within the club and among those close to the player, over his long-term future — largely due to those injury problems.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Many of us have spent the past 15 months focused on chaos and bouts of incredulity, if not insanity.—
Donna Vickroy,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Her tweets had been picked up by popular X accounts like PopCrave and DiscussingFilm, with people sharing their incredulity over the situation.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2026
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Mandelson was arrested in February on suspicion of misconduct tied to his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and allegedly passing sensitive government information.—
Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2026
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Arrested for suspicion of drunken driving in December.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
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My own passage into and back out of unbelief—one marked by a close reading of works that earlier illiberal societies had attempted to suppress on religious grounds—has strengthened my liberal commitments.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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But the indirect benefits seem to reflect a posture against green energy, related to unbelief in climate change, and these lead to support for inefficient energy alternatives like nuclear and geothermal and gas-fired turbines.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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“Disbelief.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disbelief. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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