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US
/bɪˈɫivɪŋ/
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[ UK /bɪlˈiːvɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /bɪlˈiːvɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the cognitive process that leads to convictions
seeing is believing
How To Use believing In A Sentence
- Edgar Allan Poe, I am fond of believing, earned as a critic a good deal of the excess of praise that he gets as a romancer and a poet, and another over-estimated American dithyrambist, Sidney Lanier, wrote the best textbook of prosody in English; [31] but in general the critical writing done in the United States has been of a low order, and most A Book of Prefaces
- You died near ninety, still unbelieving, unconfessed, and unreceived.
- Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.
- With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor. Inside the Whale
- Believing in the authenticity of such apparitions is not even a requirement of Catholic faith.
- ‘Up is down, and down is up… My feeling is that someone has essentially conned her into believing that she's going to be voting,’ he said.
- The folks at are charged with contributing to the delinquency of the film-makers, who were likely duped into believing this could become a satisfying monster movie.
- For it is through believing that the sun rises and sets, the moon passes and wanes, the rain falls and sunbeams pour down that allows the order and sequence of events to happen.
- Last summer, when the cruise ship pulled into Beirut, passengers whipped out their cell phones to call disbelieving friends back home. Back From the Brink
- Our ability to stress over trivial cultural issues while ignoring the extermination of the environment will make medieval peasants believing in miracles seem as reasonable as Einstein.