credence
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This week, faculty wrote that his words lent credence to false accusations against the symposium and wrongly suggested that the lawyer or the organizers supported her client’s alleged crimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Those results all lend credence to Microsoft’s commentary that “customer demand for AI and cloud services continues to exceed available capacity,” Lee said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
"We are not giving research enough time to prove its worth," Rancillac emphasised, adding that" scientifically worthless" accounts of self-experimentation were being given too much credence.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
While spice master is an unofficial term—much like “spice therapist,” another that people have given Lev Sercarz, who says it makes him wince—his two cookbooks give the monikers credence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
And can it now be said: we accord credence in this way because it has proved to pay?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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