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skeptically

ADVERB
dubiously
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"Our expectations were simply following along with that consensus, but once we sampled the hyoid and saw features that strongly indicated maturity, we knew that we had to examine that idea more skeptically."

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

European regulators view investment to and from China skeptically as well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Barron’s wrote skeptically about the stock last December.

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

But those whims change over time, and that lands the loyalty of the show in some awkward tonal territory, with the hosts supporting causes they once, to say the least, viewed extremely skeptically.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2025

Slowly, skeptically, Clare removed his monocle and closed the distance between his eye hollow and the swirling darkness.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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