believer
Americannoun
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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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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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"I'm a strong believer in the technology," says Hasa.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
“If you’re a believer in the AI trade, if you’re a believer in the re-industrialization and the remilitarization trade, the Japanese stock market offers a lot of these,” the strategist said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Beyond the hardheaded negotiating, Emanuel says he’s also a great believer in serendipity—and in showing up every day to stay in the fight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Lucas is a believer in Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey, an aspirational filmmaker who got to “Star Wars” via the success of “American Graffiti.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Another believer said the spirits were “a magnetic, electric force, going out from the person, and imponderable; this force comes in contact with … the mind.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
They’re believers in rancho libertarianism, my neologism for the individualistic politics exemplified by the Mexican men who raised me and who I grew up with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Other times, I was interviewing believers and, more often, their bewildered loved ones.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
It concluded the slump was caused when believers in the Dow Theory of technical analysis all sold at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“We are believers in the reindustrialization of America,” Robotti said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Harvard men asked the believers to define the spirit manifestations.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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