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doubters

noun

plural of doubter

as in skeptics

a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something there will always be some hard-core doubters of the government's denial of the UFO incident

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Recent Examples of doubters Zhang Xiaofei, the star of Chinese blockbuster Hi, Mom, plays the captain of the Emei Women’s Football Team, which enters the Supreme Invincible Cup determined to prove its doubters wrong. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026 When Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and superstar singer Taylor Swift began dating, the haters/doubters were out in full force. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026 These doubters also disparage as unreliable or wishful thinking the oral histories passed down by Hemings’s descendants who have placed Jefferson in their family tree. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026 In the past three weeks he’s silenced each and every one of his doubters. — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Jackson wants to convince his doubters that the messenger doesn’t matter as much as the message. — Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026 To doubters who said these two wouldn’t last, Wade, 44, and Union, 53, have proven them wrong. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026 Each built something worth paying attention to, often against long odds and louder doubters. — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 An undefeated season for the Noles and a Heisman Trophy-winning campaign for Winston proved every single one of the doubters wrong, as FSU ran roughshod over the ACC en route to its third national title in program history. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026

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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

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