belief
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The January 2025 wildfires that swept through Pacific Palisades wreaked devastation practically beyond belief, destroying more than 5,600 homes and businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
In one of the world's most AI-connected societies, the village's greatest challenge is not fading belief in fortune-telling, but the way it is consumed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Sunrisers had a glimmer when Seifert skied Abrar Ahmed on 57 but Crawley dropped a tough chance and the belief ebbed out of the visitors.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
What elevates Mellencamp’s song is the dual consciousness in his raspy vocal: the nagging belief in a dream that, like everything else, “just kind of came and went.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
This is called “burying your head in the sand,” and the expression comes from a widely held but mistaken belief about ostriches.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
His community lives in constant tension between its Jewish identity and the demands of the Islamic Republic, seeking to pursue religious beliefs without being seen as challenging the regime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
So do dads carrying old-school Igloo coolers, each of whom, I suspect, has strongly held beliefs about bread density, condiment placement and whether tomatoes are worth the risk.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
But then you ask if they’re willing to share any portion of the plan, any values, any beliefs, any hopes and wishes — and you hear, “They don’t need to know anything right now.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Those are his core beliefs, arguments he's made hundreds, if not thousands of times.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
But he'd lived in Nazi Germany long enough to be wary of protesting openly about his beliefs that conflicted with the Nazi regime's agenda.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Vocabulary lists containing belief
"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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