disbeliever

as in skeptic
a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something the usual disbelievers refused to accept the president's claim that he was acting only in the public interest

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Noun
  • Scientists are natural skeptics, and his first instinct was to look for flaws.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Regardless of whether his own feelings seeped into the show, Gilligan has been a vocal skeptic of artificial intelligence.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Bondi arrived armed with personal attacks against individual Democratic senators and lobbed them at her questioners when pressed on a range of topics.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The bullet passed near his team members and the questioner standing directly in front of him.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Disbeliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disbeliever. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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