DOUBTED Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

doubted

verb

past tense of doubt

as in questioned

to have no trust or confidence in I doubt that you can do all that you say

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Recent Examples of doubted The long delay before Davis was charged did not mean Las Vegas investigators doubted his culpability, DiGiacomo said. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026 Bahdanau quietly doubted their potential to achieve anything like human-level intelligence, but his adviser, the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, and the postdoc on the project, Kyunghyun Cho, were believers. — Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026 France’s debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to climb to 122% next year from 119% this year, and the government’s latest plan failed to halt the surge in bond yields as investors doubted its credibility. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026 But some in the newsroom doubted the integrity of Bragg’s methods. — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026 Some legal experts doubted the oil industry would prevail in this case without both Thomas and Alito. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 Allied with previous victories at Strade Bianche and in Amstel Gold, and Pidcock’s pedigree in long one-day races should not be doubted. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Many researchers laughed at the programs’ sometimes embarrassing errors and doubted the models’ utility. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026 Berman has argued that the development is out of context and doubted the claims of affordable housing promised by the developer. — David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026

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But on Monday, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likened many of the investors drawn to the AI boom to gamblers and questioned the economics of AI labs as Wall Street debates whether the AI bubble will burst.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
The child's mother was taken into custody at the hospital and is being questioned by police, according to the NYPD.

— Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

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