skeptic

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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Recent Examples of skeptic And there are still skeptics, despite the rosier guidance. Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025 That forecast might sound suspiciously familiar to skeptics who have seen such decadal predictions come and go in the past. Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025 But skeptics increasingly hold sway in government, as ProPublica recently reported. Anna Clark, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2025 Despite owning baseball’s best record during the regular season, skeptics remain for Milwaukee thanks to a string of recent postseason flameouts. Scott Phillips, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for skeptic
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questioner
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  • Bondi arrived armed with personal attacks against individual Democratic senators and lobbed them at her questioners when pressed on a range of topics.
    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

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“Skeptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skeptic. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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