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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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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If anything, he’s a true believer in the American Dream, willingly and literally breaking his back to put food on his table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
I’m a believer that politics is usually more like Veep than House of Cards; even world-changing events more often unfold by accident or luck than by design.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Insisting on both the singularity of Gaudí’s vision and the glories of artistic collaboration, the Sagrada Família woos believer and nonbeliever alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"He was great believer and a great comedian, like lots of comedians to have come from the north of Ireland."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is supervised by another Met Bong with similar features and characteristics, who is just as zealous a believer in the Angkar as my previous supervisor.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
"Among true believers Nigel Farage's personal ratings remain as strong as ever," says Luke Tryl from pollsters More in Common.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“We are believers in the reindustrialization of America,” Robotti said.
From MarketWatch ● 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
Judaism has its creeds and values, but the Jewish people are anything but a consensus-minded group of true believers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Still, some long-term believers stayed true to the cause, unable or unwilling to accept facts.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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