believed
Example Sentences
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One of the officers who had interrogated Smith after his arrest later testified that he believed Smith was innocent.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Voters were asked whether each label made them more inclined or less inclined to back a given candidate, or if they believed there was not much difference or had no opinion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Burnham sent a "few messages" via an unspecified communication channel to a person he believed to be the top aide, Susie Wiles, before becoming suspicious, Politico reported on Monday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
In the early 2000s, in the first months of former leader Bashar al-Assad’s reign, North Korea helped Syria secretly build a gas-cooled, graphite-moderated nuclear reactor, believed to be modeled on Pyongyang’s Yongbyon design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
He did not know if he quite believed that, for the unkindness with which he’d seen himself could not be undone in a day.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
