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For a longer if equally uncritical account of the cartel’s activities, see Osram chairman William Meinhardt’s Entwicklung und Aufbau der Glühlampenindustrie (Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1932).—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
24 Sep. 2014 -
Defeated and afraid, the leadership in Helsinki settled into a long period of uncritical neutrality toward, if not subservience to, the Kremlin.—
Jussi M. Hanhimäki,
Foreign Affairs,
22 May 2024
Adjective
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In that event, only the credulous will consider U.S. commitments credible.—
Daniel W. Drezner,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Apr. 2019
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The Athletic has become a bit of a shill for 115 FC, seemingly quite credulous in the face of the overwhelming evidence.. much of which comes from their own emails.—
Sam Lee,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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Creating lasting, trustful relationships with clients takes patience, persistence, and a commitment to your values.—
Medhat Zaki,
Forbes,
20 Sep. 2024
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Instead of dwelling on disappointments, view them as learning experiences that can refine your judgment in the future and be open to the potential for trustful connections.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
13 Nov. 2023
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Their nation now appeared vulnerable and gullible in the eyes of the world—and they’d been cheated out of $7,000.—
Peter Zablocki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Feb. 2025
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But this young man has shown me how others see me now: old, gullible, vulnerable.—
Fabiola Santiago,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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However, as with other recent crises, unrelated media from other fires has dropped into the online conversation, drawing in otherwise unsuspicious viewers.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Chemirmir, 49, quietly smothered elderly women, making their deaths look unsuspicious, and stole their jewelry, according to police and prosecutors in Dallas and Collin counties.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 Apr. 2022
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Active ETFs, which trade in real-time, are also more susceptible to market swings unlike mutual funds which price once a day, Nicholson added.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2025
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The latest development raises concerns about whether dairy cows may be more susceptible to the bird flu, which would increase the risk of cow-to-human transmission.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The quick moving crooks tend to steal pricey Beats headphones and Apple Air Pods from their unsuspecting victims, police said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
20 Feb. 2025
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Scammers have been sending texts to unsuspecting taxpayers.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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But in the transactional world of Trump, Musk, and DOGE, the concept of career civil servants taking lower-paying, apolitical work to serve an intangible greater good is naive at best.—
Adam Chandler,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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The idea sounds simple, even naive: Fix the money, fix the world.—
Bryan Benson,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Overcredulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcredulous. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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