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 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 Now, a new era of politics and a shift in large enterprises’ approach to purchasing AI models may have given Mistral the perfect opportunity to prove its doubters wrong. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 Hoyer traded enough prospects to silence at least some of his doubters. Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Within a week, Flaco had triumphed over the doubters who feared that an owl raised in captivity wouldn’t have the strength or stamina to survive in the outside world. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2026 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 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
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Noun
  • Maybe, then, Bohm is a lesson for even the harshest skeptics.
    Matt Gelb, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
  • To skeptics, the Clancy case is a series of foregone conclusions.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 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 26 Aug. 2026.

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