How to Use skepticism in a Sentence

skepticism

noun

• 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
• 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
• There has also been public skepticism about the merits of the antitrust probe.
  — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• But the proposal won resounding support among the Israeli far-right that had so far expressed skepticism over Trump's peacemaking foray.
  — Ellie Cook, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
• The signal is stronger than expected, suggesting colder than predicted hydrogen gas, which has fueled a lot of skepticism around the claim.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025