as in skeptic
a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something
Father Henry is always happy to debate any questioner of the faith
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Recent Examples of questioner
The bullet passed near his team members and the questioner standing directly in front of him.
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hannah Parry
joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
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skeptic
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Vaccine skeptics falsely claim that the measles vaccine causes autism, a claim repeatedly disproven by extensive scientific research.—
Suhail Bhat,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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Reviewing pages have been thinned by the forces of history and technology; few Pynchon skeptics anymore bother to take the time to read the novels and register their objections.—
Book Marks
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Questioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/questioner. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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