credible

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Prof Santer said: "The report is still available on the DOE website and is still being publicly referenced by DOE Secretary Wright as a credible source of information on climate science. It is not."

From Science Daily • Jul. 2, 2026

Nato General Secretary Mark Rutte has previously urged the alliance's members to present "clear, concrete and credible plans" for how they will raise defence spending ahead of next month's summit.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

“Any credible framework must be based on coordination with Iran,” said Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister in charge of legal affairs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

This is both crucial and ironic in Griffin’s case, given that her legal strategy rests on the expectation that some victims are credible and some aren’t.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

An intellectually disabled black woman living in Choctaw County, Alabama, Ms. Banks was accused of killing her newborn child even though police had no credible basis for believing she had ever been pregnant.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson