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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skeptic
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
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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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