disbelievers

noun

plural of disbeliever
as in skeptics
a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something the usual disbelievers refused to accept the president's claim that he was acting only in the public interest

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  1. skeptics
  2. questioners
  3. unbelievers
Noun
  • The company agrees with skeptics like the NFL that justices must eventually opine on whether states and tribes should regulate its sports event contracts as sports bets, a Supreme Court litigator working with Kalshi told Semafor.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • An ever-lonelier minority of skeptics argue that AI’s rise may seem unusually fast but is in fact following a centuries-old script.
    — RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of skeptics
Noun
  • Fourteen minutes and just three questioners later, she was done.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Mark Hamill, Martha Stewart, Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro were some of the questioners.
    — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 23 May 2026
Definition of questioners
Noun
  • An idea could be forming despite unbelievers.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Peppering dashes of humor into its brew of foreboding, the movie views the rise of an authoritarian movement through its effect on a family of unbelievers, covering a five-year period that begins in celebration and ends somewhere very different.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
Definition of unbelievers
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