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Six example sentences with credulous, each labelled with its topic.
Researchers found that tired volunteers grew credulous, accepting invented headlines that the same group had rejected after a full night's sleep.
Psychology
Credulous investors wired deposits to a fund whose only evidence of profit was a glossy brochure and a borrowed office.
Finance
The con artist in the film picks credulous marks who nod along to every claim without once asking for proof.
Movies
Credulous buyers paid fortunes for relics, and one abbey sold enough splinters to build a small ship.
History
A credulous public accepted the perpetual motion machine until a physicist asked to see it run for a day.
Science
Credulous users clicked the link promising a free phone, and the fake site collected their passwords.
Technology
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