credence
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Officials have to deal with baseless allegations of corruption and favouritism as it is, so giving any kind of credence to a lack of professionalism by a referee is a problem.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Those results all lend credence to Microsoft’s commentary that “customer demand for AI and cloud services continues to exceed available capacity,” Lee said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
A nine-year-old chip still running and generating sales also gives some credence to the idea that chips are viable assets to lend against.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Erkılıç says she doesn’t give much credence to the AI versus humanity panic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
And can it now be said: we accord credence in this way because it has proved to pay?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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