Frank Abagnale

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

American Celebrity

Justin Kirk

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

American Actor

Joel Osteen

I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.

American Clergyman

Lara Pulver

I think I was raised by a very humble mother, who, if anything, is probably over skeptical. She has that sense of everything being a bonus: like, you have your lot, and anything else is on top. She's quietly proud, and quietly humble.

English Actress

Karen Civil

I clung to my vegan friends for more support than anyone because they helped guide me and made the transition much easier. My family was a bit skeptical, as they felt like I wasn't getting enough protein in my vegan diet.

American Businesswoman

Fredrik Bajer

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Danish Writer

Landon Donovan

I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

American Athlete

Phil Klay

There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.

American Writer

Raoul Peck

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

Haitian Director

Jamais Cascio

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

Use 'skeptical' when someone doubts someone's trustworthiness or honesty.

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'Skeptical' means requiring more evidence before believing something.

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'Skeptical' can imply cautious thinking, which is a positive trait in debates.

Healthy Doubt

Being 'skeptical' can also show emotional self-protection from potential disappointment.

Emotionally Guarded

'Skeptical' is suitable when critically assessing ideas or stories.

Critical Analysis

'Skeptical' can signal a change in one's attitude from belief to doubt.

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'Skeptical' often involves questioning generally accepted truths or norms.

Challenging Consensus

In science, being 'skeptical' is a fundamental part of the system to verify claims.

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 This could be the first experiment that secures its funding forevermore, right, if successful? Well, that's right, I wouldn't have to write to NIH anymore. Well look, just to be skeptical for a minute, I mean, this is amazing, but isn't most of the evidence so far that sensory substitution works,

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 highly skeptical and exceedingly talented researchers do agree on two things. First, this problem is just simply too important to continue ignoring because we think we know the answer. And two, if we're willing to be wrong, if we're willing to challenge the conventional wisdom

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 may seem a little fanciful. Watch the news every day and the world seems to be going backwards, not forwards. And let's be it's pretty easy to be skeptical about grand announcements coming out of the UN. But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment.

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 how do you get some skeptical people in this country to really understand the importance of wearing masks and how long do you think we're going to be wearing them for well you know i can't predict deborah how long it'll be i know that right now if you look at the

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 If your instrument is inside, you're done. Otherwise, look at whatever's in there, and then open the box with that picture on it. Keep going that way until you find your instrument. The bandmates are skeptical, but amazingly enough, they all find what they need.

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 Getting early wins sets in motion a positive feedback loop, a contagion, a belief, a motivation. It requires pressuring policymakers, using the media to change narrative, making arguments in public, persuading skeptical neighbors one by one by one.

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 many were skeptical, considering the epic to be pure fiction, a founding myth imagining a bygone heroic era. But some scholars believed that behind the superhuman feats and divine miracles there must have been a grain of historical truth -

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 by seven and a half minutes. Literally, you will live seven and a half minutes longer than you would have otherwise, just because you watched this talk. Some of you are looking a little bit skeptical. That's okay, because check it out --

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 she was skeptical and she asked so many babies in these countries died do mothers even care or is it an accepted everyday part of life I came to discover the answer to both of these questions soon after I moved to India and after I

Skeptical

Not easily believing or trusting.

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Hesitant to accept something without proof.

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Questioning or doubting of established beliefs or accepted theories.

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