skepticism
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So when one of the company’s top research-and-development executives and its scientists took their latest concoction—a detergent “tile” called Tide evo—to its fabric-care sales and marketing team, there was plenty of skepticism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
The law is “being blatantly abused by the lemon law plaintiffs lawyers, the bar is not policing its own and the courts need to monitor fee awards with far more skepticism and scrutiny.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
“There is also skepticism regarding how quickly LNG tankers will be able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz again and how rapidly LNG production in the Gulf region can resume,” analysts at Commerzbank say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
However, he added, it wouldn’t be surprising if Warsh withheld his own dot-plot projection given his past skepticism toward the Fed’s forecasting tools.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 14, 2026
They show Lowell to have been well aware of the skepticism expressed by other astronomers about the reality of the canals.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing skepticism
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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