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The other disbelieving intellectuals continued to write and publish but seemed to make less news by their pronouncements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

From across the coffee table, their eyes widened, and their mouths skewed into disbelieving shapes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025

They look disbelieving but I walk with them to Plankinton and show them an address on a seemingly abandoned building and explain the numbering system again.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2024

There is a famous clip to be found on Youtube of a television reporter roaming the streets of Liverpool informing disbelieving fans that Bill Shankly had announced his retirement.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

And she sounded sort of lifeless and disbelieving all at the same time when she said they’d had no idea the baby was at risk.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx