In a sentence
Six example sentences with skeptic, each labelled with its topic.
The lab's resident skeptic asked for the raw readings, rebuilt the chart himself, and found the error in an afternoon.
Science
Every engineering team needs one skeptic who asks why the dashboard shows growth on a week nobody shipped anything.
Technology
A skeptic on the review panel kept asking for the trial data, and the miracle supplement quietly disappeared from shelves.
Medicine
The ancient skeptic held that no belief could be proved, so the wise course was to suspend judgment on everything.
Philosophy
The fund's resident skeptic asked how a company with no customers could be worth a billion, and the team passed on the deal.
Finance
The old scout was a skeptic about analytics until the numbers found a bench player who became the team's best defender.
Basketball
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