believability

Example Sentences

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Humor is the strongest connective tissue between fiction and its audience, and fantasy, like horror, has a higher believability bar than most genres.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2024

Of course, this is complicated by the reality that inexpensive vegetable oils are frequently included in foods that are fried, ultraprocessed or otherwise unhealthy, which lends the anti-seed oil narrative some believability.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2024

Were there conversations about how elaborate you could go there without losing believability?

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

Bankman-Fried’s lawyers probably were trying to cut into the believability of those witnesses, but they fished so meekly for a damaging response that it sometimes looked like they were letting the witnesses off the hook.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2023

“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?”

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel