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
Bondi arrived armed with personal attacks against individual Democratic senators and lobbed them at her questioners when pressed on a range of topics.
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Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025
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
Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for questioner
skeptic
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Scientists are natural skeptics, and his first instinct was to look for flaws.—
Lisa Jarvis,
Twin Cities,
8 Nov. 2025
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Regardless of whether his own feelings seeped into the show, Gilligan has been a vocal skeptic of artificial intelligence.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Questioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/questioner. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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