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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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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“Analytics didn’t do that. I’m a firm believer that the best video camera is your eyes, the best model is your brain, and the best way to make a tough decision is with your heart.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 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
Beatrice’s interest in the device is not that of a true believer but part of her research into the “history of memory.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The German stressed he was "always a believer in the positive things", but tellingly also referred to the pursuit as a "long fight".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“The true believer has faith that everything will be fine and they’ll be saved and go to heaven, which kind of makes adventure less of an adventure. But I’ll risk it.”
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
I discussed lizard people and societal collapse with true believers.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Because their play Sunday could buckle the resolve of even true believers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 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
Estimates of English Spiritualists ranged widely from 10,000 to 100,000 believers by the end of the 1800s.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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