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Six example sentences with credence, each labelled with its topic.
The fossil find gave credence to a theory most geologists had dismissed for thirty years as wishful arithmetic.
Science
Jurors gave more credence to the confident witness than to the hesitant one, even though both described identical events.
Psychology
Nobody lent the rumor much credence until the company delayed its filing twice in the same quarter.
Finance
Historians give little credence to the chronicle's account of the battle, since its author wrote a century after the event.
History
The judge gave more credence to the delivery log than to either driver's memory of which truck arrived first.
Law
Voters lent the rumor enough credence that the candidate spent a week of the campaign denying it on every station.
Politics
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