public belief
Example Sentences
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Their rivalry can be traced back a decade, with Musk's now public belief that OpenAI, under Altman's leadership, abandoned the principles he and others used to found it in 2015.
From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025
His career path has been so crazily eccentric, perhaps the most reasoned resume entry is his celebrated public belief that the Earth is flat.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2022
Worse, propagandists are constantly developing ever more sophisticated methods for manipulating public belief.
From Scientific American • Sep. 3, 2019
“Your office chose to go against your public belief that women shouldn’t accept sexual harassment in any form and portrayed my experience as a misinterpretation instead of what it actually was: harassment and ultimately, intimidation.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2019
Departing from Goedart’s example, she also included eggs, declaring boldly that eggs were the source of every caterpillar despite widespread public belief in spontaneous generation of insects.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
