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
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There are plenty of skeptics countering the AI hype machine, though few professional market analysts have done so as stridently as Julien Garran, a researcher and partner at the UK firm MacroStrategy Partnership.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025 -
In the weeks that followed, the secretary also removed every member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory committee, replacing them with a merry band of loyalists and skeptics.—
Eli Cahan,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
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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
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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 27 Oct. 2025.
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