How to Use lend weight/credence/credibility in a Sentence

lend weight/credence/credibility

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• The glimpses of all these potential futures, in turn, lend weight to the show’s warnings about the present.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
• But the legendary British investor has been right more than enough to lend weight to his predictions.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 20 July 2022
• Any future discovery of these would lend credence to Lykawka and Ito’s claim.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• Flat planes and masonry marks also lend weight to accounts that the artist scavenged stone blocks from Paris building sites.
  — Hannah McGivern, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
• Some numbers seem to lend credence to Williams’ assertion.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
• Sometimes the mere act of attendance in a war game can lend credibility to the game’s outcomes.
  — Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2023
• The data lend credence to the notion that Netflix’s slowdown is due at least in part to heavy competition.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
• Buyers lend credence to products that have made appearances in the media.
  — Colby Flood, Forbes, 13 June 2022
• There’s the star-power option, when someone like Benedict Cumberbatch is brought in to lend weight to a production.
  — Sebastian Modak, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• Bruno also appeared to lend credibility to reports that ULA is up for sale.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• Overall, Biden has struggled early on to lend credence to the central pillars of his candidacy.
  — Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• These would lend credence to the idea that ancient Egyptians relied on the Nile to transport construction materials for pyramid projects.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
• Many of the questions that top Republicans put to Wray on Wednesday were seemingly designed to lend credence to these theories.
  — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• The findings lend weight to the standard model of cosmology, but could also help physicists to probe where our models of galaxy formation fall down.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 7 May 2014
• Herries and colleagues cite some evidence for non-hominid migrations that may lend weight to this theory.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2020
• The recent findings ultimately lend credence to the idea that the first humans to inhabit Europe entered from the east and potentially advanced through the valleys of the Danube River.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
• The existence of a ransom note seemed to lend credence to the theory that an intruder was responsible for JonBenét’s murder.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
• This week’s policy assessment by the Federal Reserve, which has held firm against hawkish expectations, could lend weight to bears.
  — Ruth Carson, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2021
• Docking says his name is attached to Rize to lend credibility to the company, especially as it got started.
  — David Jesse, Freep.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• These results lend weight to the researchers’ conjecture that priests resorted to industrial-scale farming and slaughter to harvest the legions of future mummies.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
• The financing commitments—about half in bank debt and half in cash promised by Mr. Musk himself—lend credibility to an offer that lacked the details that usually accompany a bona fide takeover play.
  — Cara Lombardo, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• Be present in your interactions and lend credence to any questions, concerns or observations your employee has to offer in return.
  — Eugene Dilan, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Simple loss-cutting could explain the companies’ actions, says Howell, although some details do lend credence to the idea that Chinese authorities could have also played a role.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
• Other metrics also lend credence to the concept that coronavirus activity has slowed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• But the Wari's construction of complex, distinctive architecture and the 2013 discovery of an imperial royal tomb lend credence to the Wari's empire status.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2022
• The key component of any durable conspiracy theory is a partial truth—something that intersects with reality just enough to lend credence to the broader invention.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• But the defining quality of Alex Jones was a willingness — more than that, a compulsion — to lend credibility to conspiratorial nonsense.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 July 2022
• Contamination issues aside, her findings also lend weight to theories of panspermia.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2019
• These stories lend credence to the idea that gender is a static, immutable, biological reality, and that trans people’s identities are flimsy self-constructions to be humored if not believed.
  — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
• Trump tried to install Clark as acting attorney general in the days before the Jan. 6 insurrection when top Justice Department officials refused to lend credibility to his false voter fraud claims.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024