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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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Alex McKechnie chuckles at the leap of faith he took when he packed up almost all his belongings in Glasgow and booked a one-way flight to Vancouver, Canada on 7 September 1974.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

If so, this quite a leap of faith.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

Even though she’s a trained singer, with film credits including “Mamma Mia!” and “Les Misérables,” this peculiar religious epic required an enormous leap of faith.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

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 • Nov. 25, 2025

It was an enormous leap of faith to give them arrows, even if the tips were blunted.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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