skepticism
Example Sentences
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MIDDLETOWN, Pa.—Forty-six years have passed since America’s worst nuclear accident, at Three Mile Island, jolted the country and created skepticism of nuclear energy.
The purported weapons used in some of the cases have only fueled skepticism: A District of Columbia man was charged for throwing a Subway sandwich.
From Los Angeles Times
But the skepticism is notable for what it says about the difficulty in building trust in public institutions after so many decades of malfeasance and mismanagement.
I have a healthy skepticism about Thanksgiving dinner-price surveys, not least because they don’t include alcohol and other snacks that guests expect — let’s return to your Friendsgiving.
From MarketWatch
It doesn’t help that enterprise software stocks in general have faced skepticism in 2025 due to artificial intelligence.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
