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belief

[bih-leef] / bɪˈlif /




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For Cascione, the success of the tennis program at Mission College — a school with fewer than 10,000 students — boils down to one word: belief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Tell me one that captures your belief about business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The research, published in Nature Medicine, challenges the long-held belief that these cells are always beneficial.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

For years, people with the condition were assumed to have profound learning disabilities but Romi, who uses special eye-gaze technology to communicate, is hoping to challenge that belief.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

He felt the wind try to snuff out his belief, his hope, but he held on tightly to it.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

For me, the lesson is in how we present our beliefs to the world.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

I think that comes from a set of beliefs about what women really want.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

He added the comments did "not reflect my true beliefs or opinions, particularly of the communities mentioned in the report".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

As speculation swirled about why employees at OpenAI and Anthropic were speaking so freely about their personal beliefs, Korbak jumped into the public discourse.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Nevertheless, we treat facts as if they are equivalent to things, and dictionary definitions of ‘fact’ slide between defining facts as things and defining them as true beliefs.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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