skeptical

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Netflix is the largest streamer in the world, but some shareholders have been skeptical about the company’s future.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

And he acknowledged that may be part of the reason some voters were skeptical of voting for a billionaire.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

While astronomers and space scientists were initially skeptical about the planet nine theory, there has been mounting evidence thanks to increasingly powerful observations that the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects are indeed erratic.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

But these revitalized Knicks—for decades themselves a Schadenfreudist’s delight, a faded franchise with crabby ownership and aggrieved fans—are giving even skeptical out-of-towners a case of the Manhattan warm ’n’ fuzzies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

They wandered through the rooms like skeptical housebuyers.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy