believable
adjective
be·liev·able
bə-ˈlē-və-bəl 
: capable of being believed especially as within the range of known possibility or probability
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she had a believable excuse for missing the deadline
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This was the first year the APA asked about AI and election anxiety and one of the things the organization found was that seven in 10 people experienced stress over the fact that fake information can seem so believable.
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Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
The cast here is most believable as young people—enemies or not—who stay up all night and then fall asleep in a pile, like puppies in long grass.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Horror movies with jokes usually involve the characters finding brief moments of levity in a more believable, less high-concept world.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
First, infiltration: having fake accounts create believable interactions with human users in a target community, getting those users to follow them.
—Filippo Menczer, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024
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Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
The cast here is most believable as young people—enemies or not—who stay up all night and then fall asleep in a pile, like puppies in long grass.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Horror movies with jokes usually involve the characters finding brief moments of levity in a more believable, less high-concept world.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
First, infiltration: having fake accounts create believable interactions with human users in a target community, getting those users to follow them.
—Filippo Menczer, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for believable
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“Believable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/believable. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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