Used in a Sentence

credibility

How to use credibility in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for credibility.

Editorial note

Human/civil rights was just about the last platform where LibDems had a shred of credibility, and now it's shot.

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Quick take

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of credibility gathered in one view.

noun

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for credibility.

Example sentences

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Human/civil rights was just about the last platform where LibDems had a shred of credibility, and now it's shot.

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Just as we build credit through many transactions, so we build credibility by the very pattern of our lives.

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Credit and credibility derive from the same root and signify the same thing: when in doubt, we can trust the one who has either trait.

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I put my faith in Google's engineers and they have utterly destroyed my credibility.

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Those are great places to build your career and gain some credibility/savings/experience while society figures out where the future will be.

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If he wants to start a hedge fund tomorrow, or raise a $5-million seed round for whatever project he wants to take on, he's got the credibility to do it.

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I'm not saying he is sexist, I'm just saying that all of his credibility lies in making good business decisions, not gender relations.

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Why would Rand-McNally give a shit about the political importance of Taiwan anyway, enough to risk their own credibility?

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I don't think the proper way to thank This American Life is to pester them about a data format that less than 1% of their audience can use. Idealism needs to be tempered with practicality and radicals like RMS make all patent reformists lose credibility.

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Companies define credibility so that only managers have it, in order to create an artificial scarcity that makes employees easier to control.

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If you have backing from ‘top tier’ investors or a star advisor that your prospect will have heard of, use in your subject lineii.\tThe first sentence of the email must establish your credibility.

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If you're above it, you have independent credibility and you can change projects and as long as you're not a total flake about it, you get enough opportunities that you can find a place where you shine.

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They're hurting the United States' already shaky foreign credibility, and they're hurting American companies' interests as well.

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TED should allow sensitive topics, but to allow others to use TED manipulatively as a pawn in the larger political debate subverts their mission and damages their credibility.

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The things you think sap his credibility add to his credibility for me; if he was making things up, it would have been easy for him to leave his own politics and sensitivities out of the post to make it more painful for his ex-employer.

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Instead, these closed-allocation dinosaur companies define credibility in such a limited way that managers can either support or not support the employee, and then if the person is not supported, that person's credibility is zero and the manager isn't firing that person.

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> "Facebook creeps me out."Whether or not you agree with his decision, having Notch pull away from talks with you creates an instant credibility "situation".It's also noteable that Notch had been meeting with the Oculus team just two weeks ago[0], was tweeting about them in rather gushing terms[1] and seemed incredibly inspired to work on VR ideas[2].He is now the personification of the a near universal feeling of betrayal in the community.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use credibility in a sentence?

Human/civil rights was just about the last platform where LibDems had a shred of credibility, and now it's shot.

What does credibility mean?

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

What part of speech is credibility?

credibility is commonly used as noun.