לדלג לתוכן הראשי

noun

skeptic

someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs

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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