plural truthers
: someone who believes that the truth about an important subject or event is being concealed from the public by a powerful conspiracy
He isn't a 9/11 truther, as some erroneously allege, but he has his fair share of "out there" beliefs.—
Felix Biederman
Felix BiedermanBut it is not flattering to be called a "truther." The term originated, as far as anyone can tell, to characterize people who embraced alternative explanations for the Sept. 11 attacks.—Mark Leibovich
Mark Leibovich… a so-called "truther," come to convince me that various gun massacres were staged by the federal government.—Fred Grimm
Fred GrimmExamples of truther in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
According to the Maui truthers, it can be found in the aforementioned Falcon 9 launch photo from May 2018.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
Decidedly not the former liberal feminist writer turned far-out Covid truther Naomi Wolf?
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
McMillan is — what’s the best way to put this — not a birthday truther.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2023
Carlos had found his ground-truthers.
—Joseph Polidoro, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
Now This story might not convince a die-hard Deep State truther.
—Whitney Phillips, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
Katie Hobbs won the 2022 gubernatorial race over 2020 election truther Kari Lake by a mere 17,000 votes; Mark Kelly, a charismatic former astronaut, won re-election with a shade over 51 percent of the vote.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
The front-runner for the Arizona gubernatorial nomination is a full-on election truther who is wielding her lurid conspiracy theories as a weapon in the primary.
—The Editors, National Review, 1 Aug. 2022
Halbig’s investigation, with its veil of earnest inquiry and Infowars’ endorsement, had reinvigorated the Sandy Hook truther movement.
—Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
Decidedly not the former liberal feminist writer turned far-out Covid truther Naomi Wolf?
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
McMillan is — what’s the best way to put this — not a birthday truther.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2023
Carlos had found his ground-truthers.
—Joseph Polidoro, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
Now This story might not convince a die-hard Deep State truther.
—Whitney Phillips, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
Katie Hobbs won the 2022 gubernatorial race over 2020 election truther Kari Lake by a mere 17,000 votes; Mark Kelly, a charismatic former astronaut, won re-election with a shade over 51 percent of the vote.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
The front-runner for the Arizona gubernatorial nomination is a full-on election truther who is wielding her lurid conspiracy theories as a weapon in the primary.
—The Editors, National Review, 1 Aug. 2022
Halbig’s investigation, with its veil of earnest inquiry and Infowars’ endorsement, had reinvigorated the Sandy Hook truther movement.
—Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
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“Truther.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truther. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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