doubters

plural of doubter
as in skeptics
a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something there will always be some hard-core doubters of the government's denial of the UFO incident

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Recent Examples of doubters When Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and superstar singer Taylor Swift began dating, the haters/doubters were out in full force. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026 These doubters also disparage as unreliable or wishful thinking the oral histories passed down by Hemings’s descendants who have placed Jefferson in their family tree. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026 In the past three weeks he’s silenced each and every one of his doubters. — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Jackson wants to convince his doubters that the messenger doesn’t matter as much as the message. — Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026 To doubters who said these two wouldn’t last, Wade, 44, and Union, 53, have proven them wrong. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026 Each built something worth paying attention to, often against long odds and louder doubters. — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 An undefeated season for the Noles and a Heisman Trophy-winning campaign for Winston proved every single one of the doubters wrong, as FSU ran roughshod over the ACC en route to its third national title in program history. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026 And every month the consumer proves the doubters wrong and pays the credit card bill. — Nigel Morris, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
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Noun
  • Rather than scripting the final act of a Shakespearean tragedy that exists only in their imagination, skeptics might try covering the story unfolding in front of them – one of the most successful transformations on Wall Street playing out today.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Warren was one of a number of antitrust exemption skeptics on Capitol Hill who CNBC spoke with to gauge the appetite for granting the request floated by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei with support from other AI executives.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Mark Hamill, Martha Stewart, Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro were some of the questioners.
    — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 23 May 2026
  • Mueller repeatedly referred questioners back to the text of his report, apparently unwilling—or unable—to add any words of his own.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026

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“Doubters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubters. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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