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Word: believe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...will, as he believ'd, appear once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Sage | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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Normalized population density for word "believe" throughout decades:

1870s : 1.1201
1880s : 0.8825
1890s : 0.5213
1900s : 0.3143
1910s : 0.5289
1920s : 0.7851
1930s : 0.7492
1940s : 0.7591
1950s : 0.8684
1960s : 0.8764
1970s : 1.1347
1980s : 1.1226
1990s : 1.2449
2000s : 1.2176
2010s : 1.1930