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 Kansas City neighborhood builder Chris Harris — standing Wednesday in front of a new, three-bedroom house under construction — has been turning doubters into believers his entire adult life. Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026 That said, having the longest winning streak since the days of Ted Williams, and winning 22 of 26, may win over some doubters. Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026 Arch Manning is ready for the spotlight, again Compared to last year's meeting with the media in Atlanta, this was obviously a different quarterback, with what seems like an urge to prove the doubters from last season wrong. Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026 The band, hungry to prove the doubters wrong, made one of its strongest albums. Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026 Apple Intelligence unveiled June 10, 2024 Apple hoped to silence the doubters at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, known as WWDC, in June 2024. Kevin Stankiewicz,zev Fima, CNBC, 10 July 2026 Those doubters served as an early motivator, as did the desire not to spend his life doing manual labor in the mine. Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 6 July 2026 The biggest hurdle, though, is simply believing the Elle Woods who learns to prove her doubters wrong at 16 would be so intimidated when faced with doing it again at 22. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 June 2026 The first swing was a powerful uppercut, the type of grown-man hack synonymous with no-doubters and moonshots. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 28 June 2026
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Noun
  • Saturated without feeling loud, the playful hue transforms the Moss table and chairs into a statement set that brightens the whole room (though a natural Birch finish is also available for color skeptics).
    Vy Yang, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2026
  • Within months of his confirmation as secretary, Kennedy had dismissed every member of the CDC's vaccine advisory board and replaced them with new appointees, some of them prominent vaccine skeptics.
    Karen Brown, NPR, 30 July 2026
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  • 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 Aug. 2026.

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