believer
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believers
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someone who has confidence in the truth, existence, or reliability of something.
I am a firm believer that evolution happened the way that evolutionary biologists describe.
The team’s offensive coordinator is a big believer in the run game versus the passing game.
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someone who has or professes faith in something, especially a religion.
The church has grown from a handful of believers, meeting in the pastor’s living room, to a congregation now in excess of 1,000.
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Explanation
A believer is a follower of a particular religion or spiritual practice. Whether you are a Hindu, a Pagan, or a Catholic, you can call yourself a believer. Most believers have specific religious beliefs, but you can be a secular believer as well — for example, you might be a firm believer in socialist economic policies or a believer in the benefits of homeschooling. Basically, anyone who holds a strong belief in the truth of something is a believer. The verb believe is at the heart of believer, and it stems from the Old English belyfan, "to believe."
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When the last true believer walks out of the church, it is worth asking what he saw on his way to the door.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
"It was a total long shot, but, like a UFO believer, I held on to the possibility of making contact," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Even the true believer in economic isolationism isn’t deaf to the constituencies it would harm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, although she doesn’t talk about her faith to the same degree as this group, also counts herself a believer.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Cooksey witnessed firsthand the conversion of a skeptic into a believer in April 1938, while he was traveling back east on what amounted to a sales mission.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
“We are believers in the reindustrialization of America,” Robotti said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
With Austin and his talented friends serving as the early believers, Miller is trying to build a program from the ground up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“I was in love with the frisson of transgression,” said Anna, one of the disillusioned former believers profiled in Sam Adler-Bell’s March 2026 investigation “The women leaving the new right.”
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
The hip, non-preachy image has given Buddhism a cultural boost, but it does not seems to have attracted new believers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
These believers turned the tables on the medium who had confessed, accusing her of deceit.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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