Word Finder - believe

definition

To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)

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I believe there are faeries.

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To accept that someone is telling the truth.

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Why did I ever believe you?

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To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

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After that night in the church, I believed.

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To opine, think, reckon

I can't believe I've finally found you.

He is the handsomest and strongest of men, and I believe he is the wisest also.

I don't believe that.

But then, he had reason - in his head - to believe it wasn't his.

After reading my arguments, you may or may not believe the future I describe is inevitable, as I say it is.

You may believe the story that you like best.

But they wouldn't believe me.

I don't believe you are a Wizard at all!

In this chapter, I offer forty-three developments, dynamics, and new realities I believe will work together to bring about an end to war.

I don't believe in catch-and-release except if the fish is simply too small.

He had enough alcohol in his veins to believe he could drive, and too much pride to leave the party in the passenger seat.

But I hope you will at least believe it to be possible.

If you don't believe me, then believe an expert.

Eventually, I believe, food will be free.

They have decided that Buonaparte has burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.

I believe the whole of Moscow will burn, there's an awful glow!

Certainly she had given him no reason to believe she would.

I can't believe that it's healthy to push them from your mind altogether.

I can't believe that the colour-impressions she received during the year and a half she could see and hear are entirely lost.

But after a great deal of thought and study, I told her, men came to believe that all forces were manifestations of one power, and to that power they gave the name GOD.

Where I come from the term is "thievery," but believe it or not, they don't call it that.

I believe that I have hardly begun yet to know what is possible.

Perhaps these questions are entertained only in youth, as most believe of poetry.

We will begin with the economic factors I believe will help end war, eleven in all.

Would you believe he covers up with the excuse that he's saving himself for one special girl?

Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

Some believe this is the beginning and end of the role of government.

I know you understand Fedya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why I am so fond of you.

It was difficult to believe that Connie would tell Allen, knowing his weakness for alcohol, but how else would he have known?

I believe this is the case with energy.

I didn't believe Claudette.

I can't believe I actually... twice.

You led me to believe we needed money... and you left me.

I can't believe you're doing this to me.

You must believe that.

It was hard to believe he didn't know.

I do believe some ideals are worth fighting for and, by logical extension, worth killing for—but not many.

I believe that increasingly, they will not.

Many technological problems I don't address in this book, but I believe technology will provide solutions for those also.

The countess did not believe her ears.

It is true, believe it.

I believe in you completely.

But you don't believe us.

I believe I'll go to bed.

Believe me, Prince, a mother's heart will never forget what you have done for us.

Why is it so difficult for you to believe I love him when you love him so much?

I don't believe in fraternizing with the boss.

She stared down at him, unable to believe her ears and eyes.

People are always willing to believe the worst about others.