give credence to

idiom

: to believe
usually used in negative statements
Don't give credence to their gossip.

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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 Though Powell did not give credence to the notion that the move was a makeup call for not cutting at the July meeting, speculation on Wall Street was that the central bank indeed was playing catch-up to some degree. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for give credence to 

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“Give credence to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/give%20credence%20to. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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