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Recent Examples of belie Brooks masterfully inspires emotion in this mother-daughter tale, as Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger play characters whose eternal friction belies a bond neither can fully articulate. Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025 Ali, on the other hand, is spot-on as a renowned classical pianist who goes on a tour of the Jim Crow South with a New York tough guy (Viggo Mortensen) and puts on aristocratic airs that belie his insecurities. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025 As Belle, the street-smart babysitter turned getaway driver, Erivo brings a no-nonsense attitude and physical command that belies her diminutive stature. Sezin Koehler, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2025 Hailed with a standing ovation, Fonda approached the stage with a contagious energy that belied her 87 years. Judy Berman, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for belie
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Verb
  • The lawsuit, filed by members of the church in October 2024, stems from allegations that Gateway was not transparent with its finances and misrepresented how donations were spent despite generating $100 million in revenue in the past, according to The Christian Post.
    Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Practicing Forgiveness—For Your Partner And Yourself Much like gratitude, forgiveness is commonly misrepresented.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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  • However, according to The Washington Post, current and former USAID officials refuted Musk’s claims.
    Jennifer Lotito, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • If the opening set introduced any doubts, though, the rest of the show refuted them.
    Abby Webster, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • She’s convicted of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by concealing undeclared foreign accounts, filing false tax returns and evading taxes over a decade, according to a plea agreement with the Justice Department.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Dark Empaths can grasp the subtleties of human behavior and use that insight to conceal their shortcomings behind a brash level of confidence.
    Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But all of this noise obscures the simple way to synthesize all of this: Less is better.
    Dylan Scott, Vox, 14 Mar. 2025
  • From Blue Ghost’s landing site in the Sea of Crises (close to the Sea of Tranquility, where Apollo 11 landed in 1969), totality — when Earth will completely obscure the sun as seen from the moon — will start at 1:18 a.m.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Risen delivers a marvellous account of the Hiss case, with its many plot twists, involving accusations about a fake typewriter, microfilm hidden in a pumpkin, and the intricacies of ornithology.
    Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In an interview with The Times of London Sunday, the Lord of the Rings actor urged famous LGBTQ people hiding their identity to come out of the closet.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Belie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belie. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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