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give credence to

   Also found in: Legal 0.09 sec.
give credence to someone or something
to consider someone or something as believable or trustworthy. How can you give credence to a person like Henry? I can't give any credence to Donald. He tells lies. Don't give credence to what he says. Please don't give credence to that newspaper article.
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But Uwe Timm reportedly claims to have tasted currywurst in Hamburg in 1947 -- two years before its supposed invention in Berlin -- and others also give credence to the Hamburg story.
Statements like that only give credence to the allegations by Brennan and Mattil, who said the State Department’s uppermost concern has been to keep relations with Baghdad on an even keel.
A recent newsletter reads, "The Roberts siblings stuttered as children and ironically give credence to the factor the heredity/genetic link in the stuttering equation.
 
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