believable

Example Sentences

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But I had to play a brilliant, believable baseball player.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Many of them "pass themselves off as experts in science and physics because it's somehow more believable to their followers than just going with 'the official story.'"

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

The idea that AI is already gobbling up lots of jobs seems believable because it feels like a suspicion confirmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Soon, though, the photographs started appearing on dating apps and Instagram, and fake accounts were even set up using stolen images of her friends, to "make everything look more believable".

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood