Sentence examples for to credence from inspiring English sources

In writing about the $180,000-a year nanny in The Times Magazine last week, Adam Davidson referred to "credence goods": things whose value to the consumer can't be determined.

They also bear resemblance to "credence goods," an economic term for something — whether a jar of vitamins or an auto tuneup — whose true value can never quite be determined.

In spite of his discovery that "academics know, roughly, nothing about how nannies impact children," Mr. Davidson concludes that the seriously high-priced nannies are probably analogous to "credence goods," in which the buyer can never quite be sure of an item or service's value — like a jar of skin cream — and therefore pays more in the hopes of somehow gaining a greater benefit.

Strong association with organic foods (premium price due to credence features).

4. Lewis's (Reformulated) Principal Principle relates Chance for a world w at time t (Ptw) to Credence (C) as a function of the complete history of world w up to time t (Htw) and the complete theory of chance for world w (Tw) as follows: Ptw(A) = C(A/HtwTw).

I spritzed on a little Sun-In while soaking up the sun in my Brooklyn backyard listening to Credence Clearwater Revival.

He showed no limits in the extent he was willing to go to add credence to a lie.

And I am happy to learn that he did not intend to give credence to the Pocahontas story.

But he did turn over $6,000 to her, court records show, which does little to lend credence to his denials.

As if to give credence to this reading of the collection, a letter to Davis recently arrived at the museum.

History appears to give credence to the plan's opponents.