believing
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The states, which include California, Colorado and New York, would sue on antitrust grounds, believing the deal would result in too much concentration in some local TV markets.
"I see nothing," she said, a little angry with me for believing.
From Literature
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At a sentencing hearing on Friday, Judge Philip Katz KC told the Old Bailey Jackson had not driven an electric vehicle before and had pressed the accelerator believing it was the brake.
From BBC
"It looks like the fans are disillusioned, disenchanted and not believing it."
From BBC
“He was a scrupulously superficial man, believing so fervently in the magic of surfaces that his fervor almost passed for profundity,” Mr. Junod writes.
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