disbelieve
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"Jurors may disbelieve one victim, but it's really hard for them to disbelieve many," he explained.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025
But the contradictions did not cause jurors to disbelieve her, said Harry MacLean, who wrote about the case in the book “Once Upon a Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder and the Law.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024
It's not that they disbelieve Ford, so much as they don't think she had a right to say anything about it.
From Salon • May 9, 2023
Mr. Johnston said, “You cannot disbelieve the resurrection based on the historical accounts that we have. It is so well attested.”
From Washington Times • Apr. 6, 2023
I myself did not know how I could have produced so beautiful a child, and I was proud of her and glad, even when people pretended to disbelieve that I could be her mother.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing disbelieve
Selection Vocabulary 2, Unit 2
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