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Chief Justice Roberts dismissed the arguments as speculation and said the fact that the jury might have disbelieved the statements “gives us no confidence that it would have done so.”

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2012

Men have disbelieved the incarnation, because told that all there was of it was in Christ; and they reject what is presented as exceptional to the general way of God.

From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris

Send down, also, upon me, O my God, that which will wash me from anything that is not of Thee, and deliver me from Thine enemies who have disbelieved in Thy signs.

From Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh

He has always been a particularly straightforward, honest, and honourable lad; there is not a boy in the house of whom I would so absolutely have disbelieved this tale.

From Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California by Paget, H. M. (Henry Marriott)

If it had, he would first have thought it horribly cold-blooded, and then have disbelieved in his father's conclusions.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George