How to Use skepticism in a Sentence

skepticism

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  • It's good to maintain a healthy skepticism about fad diets.
  • She regarded the researcher's claims with skepticism.
  • The White House welcomed the deal, but with a dose of skepticism.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 July 2022
  • In replies to Snoop's post on X, some fans met the news with a healthy dose of skepticism.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Over the past 25 years, the gesture has racked up a whole lot of skepticism.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a great deal of skepticism in the psychedelics space, for good reason.
    — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2022
  • The interest in Brown was as intense as the skepticism about the process.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • But at the same time, there's a lot of skepticism towards the value of the degree.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
  • Duke said there was plenty of skepticism about the idea.
    — Jennifer Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The first was skepticism about the idea that almost all value is in the future.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The first trailer is good enough to suppress some of that skepticism.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Much of the skepticism has centered on the lack of an engine for Overture.
    — David Koenig, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2022
  • At the end of the day, all any of us can do is stay open to trust, while maintaining a healthy dose of skepticism, and trusting our guts.
    — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2022
  • On that recent night in the Valley, Mills and his group try to see past their initial skepticism.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • So far, though, there’s plenty of skepticism to go around.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Buckley shared his skepticism about Kennedy’s chances in the Granite State.
    — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Since 2017, skepticism of science and marginalization of the art world haven’t slowed.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Being able to do something that my daughters can watch was what got me past the skepticism.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 28 Dec. 2022
  • But his Tuesday remarks served to rebut fresh skepticism at whether the two sides can reach a deal at all.
    — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, it was sort of initially viewed with some skepticism.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But there remained skepticism, even after a clerk at the Fort Dodge store gave him a winner claim form.
    — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Endeavor planned to hold its IPO in 2019 but pulled it amid skepticism from the market.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Even in 1996, researchers voiced skepticism of the findings.
    — Elise Cutts, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • On one end, there’s some skepticism as to whether this is virtue signaling.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Freddy manages to douse his skepticism in the name of love, but this reader had a harder time.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • There is broad skepticism from members of both parties that progress will be made on the issues about which the public most cares.
    — Hannah Fingerhut, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2023
  • And so there was perhaps a whiff of skepticism that Le Bromance could endure.
    — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • There has been some skepticism from pundits about the way Democrats have been talking about democracy over the past year.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the email's strange syntax reads like a phishing email, prompting skepticism among some workers about opening or responding to the message.
    — Will McCurdy, PCMAG, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Most economists express skepticism that a higher tariff regime would lead to such a boom, saying most costs would trickle down to American consumers.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2025

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