belief
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Certain ozone-depleting chemicals can still be used as feedstocks to produce other materials, based on the belief that only a tiny fraction, about 0.5 percent, would escape into the atmosphere.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
But with 15 titles and blessed with world-class talent, the Spanish giants are the competition's most successful team and always retained a belief they could turn things around in Munich.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
It might have been a belief that he wouldn’t get caught.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
Asking people to learn something new that goes against prior belief or intuition is costly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
“He does not make it,” said I, “and has never made it, and has no knowledge or belief that his daughter is in existence.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Vocabulary lists containing belief
"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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