as in questioner
a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something
the demand by skeptics that believers in Bigfoot produce some hard evidence of that hairy humanoid
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So when Intel reports earnings on Thursday, its CEO will need to win over skeptics by laying out a clear path to profitability and revenue growth that will translate into significant stock-price gains.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 July 2025
Singularity skeptics can also appeal to the theory at the core of the onion, where space-time behaves in truly quantum ways, such as taking on superpositions.
—Charlie Wood, Wired News, 20 July 2025
The Critics And The Clarion Call Of course, there are skeptics.
—Pankaj Vasani, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Critics of multilateralism, detractors of foreign aid, and skeptics of free trade had long advanced this claim.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 July 2025
Singularity skeptics can also appeal to the theory at the core of the onion, where space-time behaves in truly quantum ways, such as taking on superpositions.
—Charlie Wood, Wired News, 20 July 2025
The Critics And The Clarion Call Of course, there are skeptics.
—Pankaj Vasani, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Critics of multilateralism, detractors of foreign aid, and skeptics of free trade had long advanced this claim.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
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“Skeptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skeptic. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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