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as in skeptical
inclined to doubt or question claims
incredulous by nature, I'm of course very suspicious of anyone who claims to be able to communicate with the dead
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as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
an incredulous account of alien abduction that the tabloids had a field day with
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Recent Examples of incredulous
The spectacle left many South Africans watching at home incredulous and saw Ramaphosa make his strongest remarks on the matter yet.
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Kate Bartlett, NPR, 15 May 2025
Since being posted, the video has been viewed more than 8 million times and liked by over 160,000 users, leaving viewers both entertained and incredulous.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
As detectives searched the house in the days after the fire, evidence of the incredulous story the young man told in the back of the ambulance began to emerge.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
Jens Stoltenberg, who was then secretary-general, was incredulous.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Kate Bartlett, NPR, 15 May 2025
Since being posted, the video has been viewed more than 8 million times and liked by over 160,000 users, leaving viewers both entertained and incredulous.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
As detectives searched the house in the days after the fire, evidence of the incredulous story the young man told in the back of the ambulance began to emerge.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
Jens Stoltenberg, who was then secretary-general, was incredulous.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incredulous
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Marilyn Gooch was already skeptical about one of her newest neighbors, xAI’s supercomputing facility, when her cousin walked across the street in June with a blue mailer from the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce.—
Wendi C. Thomas,
ProPublica,
22 Aug. 2025
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Obama Reacts to Gavin Newsom's California Redistricting Play James Talarico's Chances of Beating Colin Allred in Texas Primary—Poll Even voters who once backed Joe Biden and flipped to Trump in 2024 remain skeptical.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
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Both owners reported incredible business for their openings.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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Secretariat won the Belmont by an incredible 31 lengths, and his record time of 2:24 still stands as the fastest of all time.—
Sarah Jean Maher,
New York Times,
23 Aug. 2025
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The body of a missing 15-year-old boy was discovered this week at a Detroit cemetery under suspicious circumstances.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Investigators did note that nothing suspicious was found, Rhodes said in an update.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee,
Kansas City Star,
14 Aug. 2025
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Such retirees will not have to file for bankruptcy protection to shield their future practice income, and there is unlikely to be more than a single creditor so as to forestall an involuntary bankruptcy filing.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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Neal Rubin won his last two elections, for student body vice president in high school and student senate in college, and is unlikely to press his luck now.—
Neal Rubin,
Freep.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Be cautious when corresponding with unfamiliar accounts.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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To be sure, companies are opting for cautious messaging around AI and its labor implications.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
13 Aug. 2025
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Humanity Protocol, valued at over a billion dollars, uses palm scans to confirm identity so impersonation becomes almost impossible.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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That suggests 2014 may have been a tipping point beyond which returning to normal wet-dry cycles may be impossible on human timescales.—
Mark Gongloff,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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What’s unbelievable is how many of these opportunities came to be: through direct messages on Instagram.—
Noah Reardon,
Billboard,
18 Aug. 2025
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And other times like [a] fourth and one stop by the defense, unbelievable play on defense and unacceptable on offense.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
17 Aug. 2025
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Modern women, embodied as a ridiculous but scary Martian, were challenging the status quo and pushing back against the patriarchy, the poor men who must defeat the alien threat.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
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Right now, Walmart has it for $998, that’s a ridiculous $2,000 off the usual $2,999 price point.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Incredulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incredulous. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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