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doubting Thomas

noun as in skeptic

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His contemporaries may have been interested in the biblical lesson of the doubting Thomas, but we are attracted to Thomas’s uncertainty, which we read, in some way, as the painter’s own.

“That’s right,” Bull said seriously, “you have done a lot of drinking. I guess I’m just the old doubting Thomas. For a minute I didn’t think you knew what you were talking about.”

When Gill climbs to a high A on the piano ballad “When My Amy Prays,” the transcendent moment might give even a doubting Thomas goosebumps.

And just so you know: Bajaj says he’s friends now with the doubting Thomases who wouldn’t make room for him way back when.

You have seen and believed, the risen Jesus told a doubting Thomas, but blessed are they who have not seen and yet still believe.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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