How to Use cred in a Sentence
cred
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Advertisement Entertainment & Arts Kevin Costner’s son doesn’t have ‘a lot’ of acting cred.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
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That, along with the tie width, give him new-gen cred to go with his new-gen pitch.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 June 2019
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But few of those Cassandras have the tech cred of Mr. Musk.
—New York Times, 9 June 2018
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The trendy tender will have plenty of street (or ocean?) cred, too.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 July 2023
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My scabs, which are imprinted on my kneecaps, give me some street cred, at least to me.
—Abby Ellin, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024
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The river took it away along with every drop of my river cred.
—Joseph Goodman, al, 14 Apr. 2023
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But at this point, excluding UC would smear the cred of the whole enterprise.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Nov. 2021
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No one can match his socialist cred, built up over decades.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020
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The optional carbon-ceramic brakes add cred to the M in front of the Gran Coupe's 8 and better withstand the abuse of a track day.
—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 18 July 2023
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The daffy has hot-dog roots but enough vestigial cred to induce a new-schooler to tip his trucker hat.
—Nick Paumgarten, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
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Mayer, for his part, was happy to write back and provide outfit creds.
—Cam Wolf, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
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Tour the rest of the house: Now that Galli has given the digs downtown cred, Samuels is obsessed with her new neighborhood.
—House Beautiful, 6 June 2019
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Our cred depended on not knowing this song, but none of us could help knowing.
—The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
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That could surely do some positive damage to your street cred, right?
—Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 1 May 2024
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Comics can garner applause and earn street cred for letting some air out of the pomposity of these events.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
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The flowy layers leave a little length up front for styling versatility, while the short back lends true crop cred.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
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Serving simple favorites while camping gets you four-star cred – the atmosphere and the post-hiking hunger do the rest.
—Cindy Dampier, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
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Having a team of lawyers making sure only real Banksys are labelled as such doesn’t do much for your street cred.
—Tyson Mitman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
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And that, to some degree, has been its core problem: denting its luxury cred.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2020
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Director Chris McKay is looking to add even more geek cred to his resume.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
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On her way to the bathroom that night, Ms. Thun saw the Datograph, snapped a photo and through her research, learned the piece had serious watchmaking cred.
—Victoria Gomelsky, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
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Lending celebrity cred to the event was Mindy Kaling, who was apparently in the audience.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
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Adding to the gin's Cincinnati cred is the bottle's label, which was done by local illustrator Robin Carnes.
—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
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In a way, Coachella’s association with Do LaB gives the festival a touch of cool cred.
—Lily Moayeri, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
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Californian cities don’t always get all of the cred for being pricey AF, though.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 18 Nov. 2019
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Host cities hail them as economic drivers and clear indicators of their food-and-bev cred.
—Hanna Raskin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
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The color red has age-old cred: In Colonial times, a red front door indicated weary travelers were welcome to spend the night.
—Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2023
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That’s a canny move to build cred, but not one that aims for chart dominance; a No. 8 debut makes all the sense in the world for an experimental LP like this.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 9 May 2023
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So our notion was that Pip would bestow French cred on us, inspire the French to view us almost as indigenous: a couple of locals.
—New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
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Now in her second season with the San Francisco arena, Nazario-Mendoza brings a global resume and local cred to the role.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
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