believe
verb (used without object)
to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.
half-believing
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a word derived from
believe.
Example Sentences
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Lawrence and her co-star, Robert Pattinson, play a city couple who move to Montana only half-believing in their own future together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
I’d lost the privilege of even half-believing that the worst thing that could happen to me while pregnant was enduring bad blood draws.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2020
"As a half-believing Catholic," Aunt Augusta said, "I cannot answer that question with any certainty, but his body, what is left of it, lies in Boulogne."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2012
Several chants could be heard coming from rooftops downtown, as word began to spread that Ben Ali was gone, with many only half-believing that a month of protests had forced the President out.
From Time ● Jan. 19, 2011
“When the half-believing girl has gone, the scheming sorceress calls to her aid her confederate in the game—the party who is to personate ‘the handsome young man.’
From The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
