as in plausible
worthy of being accepted as true or reasonable
it's at least a credible explanation
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Recent Examples of credible
Using outreach workers and homeless advocacy organizations, the city and county have given each unhoused person counseling, health care services and a credible offer of shelter or housing — along with a deadline to vacate.
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Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
Key recommendations include the mutual recognition of credible assessments to eliminate redundant audits and the implementation of interoperable data systems to ease the reporting burden on businesses.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2026
The Justice Department has denied Maxwell received special treatment and said the transfer was due to credible security threats against her.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
But archaeologists and experts in Egyptian antiquities say the claim is false — and that no credible evidence supports it.
—Ryan Brennan
april 1, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
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Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
Key recommendations include the mutual recognition of credible assessments to eliminate redundant audits and the implementation of interoperable data systems to ease the reporting burden on businesses.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2026
The Justice Department has denied Maxwell received special treatment and said the transfer was due to credible security threats against her.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
But archaeologists and experts in Egyptian antiquities say the claim is false — and that no credible evidence supports it.
—Ryan Brennan
april 1, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for credible
plausible
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And then in 1844 came Robert Chambers’s best-selling proto-Darwinist Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which sketched a plausible outline of biological evolution.—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Which is to say, that project did not exactly fly under the radar of plausible deniability.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Credible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/credible. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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