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How to use the word skeptic in a Sentence?

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The anti-science, knuckle-dragging -- if not anti-vax, certainly vaccine-skeptic -- wing of the Republican Party that's on the rise these days, that's not how you win a general election, president Joe Biden needs Covid to be in the rearview mirror by the height of the election season next year in the midterms, so we've got to do everything we can -- within the bounds of reason -- to lower Covid cases so that we can fully reopen the economy, fully reopen schools and just be done with this. A vaccine mandate is a tool that President Joe Biden has to accomplish that goal of getting Covid in a rearview mirror.

– Ian Russell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the coding thing is remarkable, but I'm a hard skeptic, the circumstances of those codes being what Tom says they are, that he says nobody but him would know these units and these figures, if it's true that's pretty hard to argue against. Rackstraw might be his guy.

– Dorwin Schreuder

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You could be the biggest skeptic in the world, and you listen to him in a room for 30 minutes, and you're ready to hand him all your money, i had faith that he'd continue to be able to pull those rabbits out of his hat.

– Ginni Kennedy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

– Miguel de Unamuno

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

– Eric Ambler

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

– George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.

– Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary

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13 years ago

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

– Thomas Huxley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.

– Walt Whitman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

– Eric Ambler

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14 years ago

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