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credence
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    How could people give the slightest credence to these rags?†  (source)
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    Adah says no one is giving it any credence; here, no one has ever doubted it.†  (source)
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    If we attempt to silence this talk, we only lend it credence.†  (source)
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    "How much credence do you give the claim of faerie betrayal?" asked Kadir.†  (source)
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    She hadn't given the story much credence—the woman didn't strike her as the marrying type.†  (source)
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    I could not give this woman credence because I, of all people, knew how crippling her psychological injuries were.†  (source)
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    the actions of the witness that lend credence to his trial testimony and the actions of the witness that lend credence to his recantation;†  (source)
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    We had given it little credence.†  (source)
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    They stood frozen, Mariam and Laila, eyes to the ground, as though looking at each other would give credence to the way Rasheed saw things, that while he was opening doors and lugging baggage for people who wouldn't spare him a glance a lewd conspiracy was shaping behind his back, in his home, in his beloved son's presence.†  (source)
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    Facts about Danny Hansford were beginning to circulate, and they lent credence to Williams's claim of self-defense.†  (source)
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    He said nothing about this, possibly because to mention it would give it more credence than it was worth.†  (source)
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    The intimacy of it, the comfort of other voices giving credence to their private myths, prepared them to meet their wives with less distance than they might otherwise bring home after fishing.†  (source)
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    No one understood the idea or put any more credence in it than in the powdered magnesium and such things.†  (source)
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