as in questioners
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 skeptics
In the weeks that followed, the secretary also removed every member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory committee, replacing them with a merry band of loyalists and skeptics.
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Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
But the plan has skeptics, too.
—Joel Rose, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
This year, Warner’s intent was to team up with Williams, 37, Kittle, 32, and McCaffrey, 29, to defy skeptics who deemed the 49ers too old to go far.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 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
These skeptics — in what may come as a surprise — tend to be younger.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
Of all the big names to pass through the Blue Note—Dizzy Gillespie, Keith Jarrett—Puth may be the most likely to provoke skeptics.
—Jane Bua, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
But the plan has skeptics, too.
—Joel Rose, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
This year, Warner’s intent was to team up with Williams, 37, Kittle, 32, and McCaffrey, 29, to defy skeptics who deemed the 49ers too old to go far.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 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
These skeptics — in what may come as a surprise — tend to be younger.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
Of all the big names to pass through the Blue Note—Dizzy Gillespie, Keith Jarrett—Puth may be the most likely to provoke skeptics.
—Jane Bua, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skeptics
questioners
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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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“Skeptics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skeptics. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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