How to Use skeptic in a Sentence
skeptic
noun
- He is a skeptic and a cynic.
- Skeptics have pointed out flaws in the researchers' methods.
- You can believe in ghosts if you like, but I'm still a skeptic.
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But the rest of us, even the skeptics, are ensnared in the same structures.
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Hannah Zeavin,
Harper's Magazine,
15 June 2022
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In time, Kurzweil says, even skeptics will begin to see the world through his lens.
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Harry Booth,
TIME,
5 Sep. 2024
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What impressed the skeptics and scouts last fall was Shedeur’s actions on the field.
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Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
29 July 2024
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There’s always going to be the skeptics and the purists and the armchair critics.
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Rebecca Keegan,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2023
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Many of the same skeptics were present in the Senate gallery on Thursday, cheering when the vote passed.
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Harm Venhuizen,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Sep. 2023
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To skeptics, all such talk may seem not just warm and fuzzy, but also soft and squishy.
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Bygeoff Colvin,
Fortune,
16 Nov. 2023
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To all the skeptics: Taylor and Joe are still going strong.
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Chelsey Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
7 Oct. 2019
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The skeptics are right that the industry is about to run out of cheap data.
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Niall Ferguson,
TIME,
2 Aug. 2024
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Some skeptics have said patients might not notice the effects of the drug.
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Laurie McGinley,
Anchorage Daily News,
6 July 2023
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The far-right leader was an early skeptic of the threat of the pandemic.
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Washington Post,
15 Dec. 2020
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Billy Napier and the Gators were optimistic and stuck to the script amid a sea of skeptics.
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Wesley Alden,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 July 2024
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Profits in 2023 declined, so skeptics think the good times no longer roll.
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John Dorfman,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2023
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There are skeptics like James Sims, a 28-year-old truck driver.
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Nic Garcia,
Dallas News,
14 Mar. 2020
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Or will the world need to wait until the 2030s or beyond, as skeptics maintain.
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IEEE Spectrum,
3 June 2024
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Tech, over the past few years, has finally met its skeptics.
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Wired,
6 Sep. 2019
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And, as in so many fields, at first the skeptics vastly outnumbered the early-adopters.
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Ben Croll,
Variety,
15 May 2024
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This recipe may change the minds of Brussels sprouts skeptics in your family.
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Jenna Sims,
Southern Living,
4 Nov. 2023
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And yes, skeptics who want to test the technology by putting obstacles in the way.
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Rachel Uranga,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2024
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Musk in 2017 addressed one question that skeptics had been kicking around for the past year: How SpaceX planned to pay for this thing.
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Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
27 Sep. 2019
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The free speech skeptics might want to read up on the history of abolitionism.
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Russell Jacoby,
Harper’s Magazine ,
16 Feb. 2023
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To critics and skeptics of their work, their ascent to fame seems eerily sudden and too good to be true.
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Samantha Chery,
Washington Post,
9 Oct. 2023
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At the same time, skeptics attempted to debunk the story by focusing on the lack of proof that Casey was in Madrid.
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Jonathan Alter,
The New Republic,
3 May 2023
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Count Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer as one of the early skeptics.
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Steve Gardner,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2020
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Perhaps more important, whether or not the skeptics like it, the United States has been supporting Ukraine since the start of the war.
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Michael Poznansky,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Jan. 2024
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Now Democrats have only the House and a president who’s a climate change skeptic.
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Ari Natter,
Bloomberg.com,
14 June 2020
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In the early days, skeptics dismissed it as a tool for academics and hobbyists.
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Vivek Wadhwa,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2024
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Supporters are seeking to win over skeptics who sank the 2018 transit referendum.
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Adam Tamburin,
Axios,
16 Oct. 2024
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