How to Use credulity in a Sentence

credulity

noun
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  • Once people choose credulity over skepticism, reason goes out the window.
    — Ece Temelkuran, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2020
  • The people who claim that Biden is consistently sharp and vigorous behind the scenes always strained credulity.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 June 2024
  • The fact that not a single senior party official numbered among her copious conspirators beggars credulity.
    — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The idea that Comey made all this up strains credulity.
    — Paul Barrett, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2017
  • For none of them to repeat in the 80 days Kepler stared at the star strained credulity.
    — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 3 July 2019
  • The fact that June can’t open an iced-over garage door sort of strains credulity — not even the car will break it open?
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 27 June 2018
  • This is a premise that, as A.J. Liebling was wont to say, stretches the elastic of credulity.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The start of this episode really strained all credulity for me, though.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2021
  • With hokum such as this, my credulity can be counted on.
    — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • The makers of religion can stretch the bounds of credulity in the name of a higher purpose.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Trump stretched credulity on a variety of subjects over the past week, trade among them.
    — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
  • In the case of Jane Doe No. 4, especially, this strains credulity.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • There was this fear of missing out that explains a lot of Walgreens’ sort of credulity and lack of due diligence.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 June 2018
  • When the age of science dawned, men of reason tended to mock the ancients for their childish credulity.
    — Tom Fort, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • Just ask Jack White, who created a Coke jingle in 2006 that stretched the limits of credulity.
    — Scott Thill, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2008
  • The harmless lies of everyday life have taught us credulity.
    — Christiane Gelitz, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Some of his actions and views strain credulity and feel overdetermined.
    — Leland Cheuk, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Yet many in the media greeted the report with utter credulity.
    — Ted Rall, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
  • But then the show became a strident piece of agitprop that strained credulity.
    — Omid Khazani and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • To do what Rose did in that upper graph is to strain reality (and credulity) past the breaking point.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2012
  • The Oslo Accords, signed in the nineties by Yitzhak Rabin, were also an act of pathetic credulity.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • To say this all neat typology strains credulity is to miss the point and be miserable.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The first American outlets to cover the app treated its premise with credulity.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • That said, there are times when Vogt seems to flicker between credulity and skepticism.
    — Vulture, 20 Apr. 2022
  • In cases where the profit motive and the social good are in conflict, the Roundtable statement begs credulity.
    — Roger Lowenstein, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Sadly, the story, first recorded in 1829, strains credulity.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • But its strengths more than make up for its occasional credulity strains.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
  • This sort of credulity is both Rogan’s biggest draw and his worst tendency.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The routine was delivered a bit tongue-in-cheek, but with enough credulity to cause a stir on social media — where viewers took the cue to lambast the Emmys.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But the film also defies credulity as Rachel seems to give-up on seeking help from the police in favor of battling the monster herself.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 21 Aug. 2020

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