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Six example sentences with skeptical, each labelled with its topic.
Every investor in the room stayed skeptical until the founder showed twelve months of receipts from paying customers.
Startups
Reviewers remained skeptical of the result because no other laboratory had managed to reproduce it in three years.
Science
Children grow skeptical of praise around age eight, weighing whether the adult actually watched what they had done.
Psychology
Analysts were skeptical of the profit forecast, since the company had missed every target for three years.
Finance
The judge sounded skeptical of the alibi, asking twice how the witness remembered one Tuesday from two years earlier.
Law
Fans stayed skeptical of the new coach until the team won eight straight in December.
Basketball
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