Allow
Believe
Believe verb - To have as an opinion.
Usage example: despite the horrors she witnessed and endured, Anne Frank steadfastly believed that “people are really good at heart”
Allow and believe are semantically related in midland topic. Sometimes you can use "Allow" instead a verb "Believe", if it concerns topics such as southern, think.
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In City Lights, the Tramp uses his friendship with the Millionaire to allow his (blind) love interest to believe he is rich.
Source: Mock Millionaire - Similarly to Bob Seger above, Neil Diamond won't allow most of his Bang Records recordings from the 1960s to be reissued, even though many people believe that's the best stuff he ever did.
Source: Old Shame / Music - Also he eventually allows the AIs at Ghostworks access to code which they believe will allow them to do so in a more esoteric sense, though Zero himself doubts that's how it works.
Source: Comicbook / Ghost Rider 2099
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