incredulity

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Co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe previously voiced incredulity about Casemiro's £18.2m annual salary, and the 73-year-old has vowed to drive down costs.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

We marvel at what 50-somethings get done during a workweek, and we recall with incredulity how much we accomplished daily while working and child-rearing and housekeeping and traveling and negotiating the city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Tsui said he followed the inquest with "incredulity" as one witness after another dodged responsibility for the missing watertight door, a fault traced back to the ship's origin at a local shipyard.

From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025

As Dickens prophetically reminds us, ours is hardly the first age of wisdom and of foolishness, the first epoch of belief and of incredulity.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

At the beginning he had no feeling except sheer incredulity.

From "1984" by George Orwell