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leap of faith

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  1. A belief or trust in something intangible or incapable of being proved. For example, It required a leap of faith to pursue this unusual step of transplanting an animals' heart into a human patient.

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Manish Kapoor, a 54-year-old IT worker in Wisconsin, took a similar leap of faith, taking out a quarter-million-dollar home-equity loan and putting it all into shares of Palantir last November.

From MarketWatch

Writing this email and, hopefully, having your brother attend a therapy or mediation together is the first, giant leap of faith to healing your relationship.

From MarketWatch

It was a leap of faith, to be sure, and the launch point for a personal tale of defiance, heartbreak and inspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal

So Musselman took “a leap of faith,” entrusting things would be different with Rice.

From Los Angeles Times

The tricky thing about this next part: paying for a technological leap of faith.

From The Wall Street Journal

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