believably

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His 2021 restaurant memory drama “Pig” gave Nicolas Cage his subtlest dialogue in years, while “A Quiet Place: Day One” had no business being as believably haunted as it was.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Foster’s Jim, believably disturbed and shady but a bit on the nose, isn’t the movie’s first problem.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

It’s the kind of deliciously painful tear-jerker that’s hard to write and even harder to believably pull off, but it’s also not surprising that this particular pairing will break your heart so beautifully.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025

Choi plays him accurately enough to rankle his home country’s audience, and believably enough to earn the rapper new fans in the U.S. and elsewhere.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025

If he could be with her, so extraordinarily beautiful and yet so ordinary, predictable and domestic and dedicated, then perhaps his life would start to seem believably his.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie