Accept and Credit

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Accept verb - To regard as right or true.

Usage example: refused to accept that her friend had said those mean things

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Credit is a synonym for accept in believe topic. In some cases you can use "Credit" instead a verb "Accept".

Credit verb - To regard as right or true.

Usage example: I simply cannot credit that story about the boy who was supposedly raised by wolves

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Accept is a synonym for credit in believe topic. Sometimes you can use "Accept" instead a verb "Credit".

To his credit, he fell in love with her before their parents got married, and she's the reason why he's unable to accept confessions from anyone else.

Source: Manga / Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare
As he was frequently willing to accept barter goods or credit instead of money, he was never very monetarily wealthy; most of his wealth was in the frontier land that he had claimed as his own.

Source: Useful Notes / Johnny Appleseed
Compare with Glad You Thought of It, which is to subtly suggest an idea in a way that lets someone else take credit (and perhaps honestly believe that they thought of it themselves), making them more likely to accept and act on the proposal than if you directly advocated it yourself.

Source: Glad I Thought of It

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