doubters

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 And there are 20,000 doubters for every believer in Hollywood. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 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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Noun
  • In addition to skeptics like Putiata, few Ukrainian troops were trained to use these new weapons.
    — Greg Myre, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Yet among skeptics, questions and doubts remain on the safety of chemical entities, fragrances included.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Mark Hamill, Martha Stewart, Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro were some of the questioners.
    — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 23 May 2026
  • Mueller repeatedly referred questioners back to the text of his report, apparently unwilling—or unable—to add any words of his own.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026

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“Doubters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubters. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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