give credence to
idiom
: to believe
—usually used in negative statements
Don't give credence to their gossip.
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Yet the Republican’s aggressive first month in office has sparked a growing backlash and may give credence to his opponents’ let-Trump-implode strategy.
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Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
This move by Harry and David would appear to give credence to recent comments by Tina Brown, the Princess Diana biographer and former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
Trump critics are also loath to give credence to the former president’s complaints about voters being insulted, given his role in stoking the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that sought to overturn the voters’ verdict as rendered in the 2020 election.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
The big picture: Since 2020, the Republican Party apparatus has been reorganized — from the top down — to give credence to Trump's false claims that election fraud is a scourge on American politics.
—Justin Green, Axios, 29 Sep. 2024
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Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
This move by Harry and David would appear to give credence to recent comments by Tina Brown, the Princess Diana biographer and former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
Trump critics are also loath to give credence to the former president’s complaints about voters being insulted, given his role in stoking the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that sought to overturn the voters’ verdict as rendered in the 2020 election.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
The big picture: Since 2020, the Republican Party apparatus has been reorganized — from the top down — to give credence to Trump's false claims that election fraud is a scourge on American politics.
—Justin Green, Axios, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Give credence to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/give%20credence%20to. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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