be dubious
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That led him to be dubious of some depictions of a more polished Jamestown with smooth-cut planks.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024
The critics had good reason to be dubious.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2022
But there are reasons to be dubious about how the journal's peer-review process worked in this case.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2021
The notion of U.C.L.A., a program with 11 national championships, as a plucky underdog may be dubious.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2021
Particular consequences may be dubious, but as to the main fact there is no doubt: the military strength of man has been growing from the earliest time known to our history, straight on till now.
From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Bagehot, Walter