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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of believe.
Examples
“Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted.”
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
“Morality among the Kachin maidens, a missionary tells me, is not, as we understand the term believed to exist.”
“Of so-called "eco-terrorism" in his case, a term believed coined by Ron Arnold, executive director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), a radical right wing group established on July 4, 1976 "to continue (the) Revolution of liberty, free enterprise and individual initiative .... without hindrance by government.”
“I believe (and have believed from the beginning of the affair) that the "clerical sexual abuse" scandal is a gigantic red herring ginned up by an unholy alliance of anticlericals, homosexual activists (tu quoque, perhaps!?), Modernist "Catholics" and media voyeurs.”
“Yanno, if Palin believed that she wouldnt be partisan …”
Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand?
“The video, if it can be believed, is intriguing, to say the least.”
“The famous mystic and Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin believed that such visions could be reflective of an increasingly unified human consciousness.”
“And yeah, the reproduced art here looks pristine, which, if Benson and Groth are to be believed, is a noticable improvement over how the original newsstand copies looked.”
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“Naturally, no one at Leavenworth or any other joint I was in believed that when I told them, but it is entirely true.”
“Re: Naturally, no one at Leavenworth or any other joint I was in believed that when I told them, but it is entirely true.”
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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