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
It is said the Duke regarded the tree with a sort of fatherly and even superstitious regard, half-believing there was some mysterious affinity between its fortune and his own.
From Strange Pages from Family Papers by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)
