adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a convincing/credible explanation (= one that you can believe is true )
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The author fails to provide a convincing explanation for the main character’s motives.
reliable/credible (= which people can trust or believe )
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Do you think their evidence is reliable?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
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The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously.
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The national newspaper Is remote, the events not within his area and thus less familiar and less credible .
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To delay the introduction of such information may make the vendor less credible to a buyer.
more
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He would be more credible if he displayed understanding of these basic issues.
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The Democrats have got to put up more white candidates in the South who are more credible with blacks.
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Western strategy had become a little more credible .
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Yet it makes the goal of church union far more credible and essential.
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This is the sort of book in which the amateur detective, modern-style, is a much more credible figure.
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Resubmission of this complaint, no matter in what form, will not render these flaky allegations any more credible .
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And they have a real sense of being more credible .
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Sometimes there are more credible observations, such as reports of foreshocks.
most
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Whatever happens, the Government will do what they can to advance the case of the most credible United Kingdom candidate.
■ NOUN
alternative
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But modern refinements and materials have brought about a resurgence of the supercharger, making it a credible alternative to the turbo.
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He was allowed to creep back into power for want of a credible alternative .
explanation
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The first two of these little surprises, just possibly, have credible explanations .
force
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But how much longer he can survive as a credible force is open to question.
threat
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The greater its dependence on others, the less its ability to issue credible threats or to mobilise for sustained hostilities.
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But such a strategy, chancy at best, certainly can not succeed without a credible threat of a resolution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her story is completely credible - she doesn't usually exaggerate.
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Is she a credible witness?
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The complaint would be more credible if he could remember more specific details.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But how much longer he can survive as a credible force is open to question.
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Once they began, they acquired momentum of their own, and the size of the purge made it credible .
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The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously.
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This means, do I think you are competent and credible .