skeptic
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I started out a skeptic, but my belief that quantum computing will commercialize has increased meaningfully in the past year and a half.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Bonner told MarketWatch that, while he considers himself a skeptic that generative artificial intelligence will entirely wipe out the software business, he’s concerned about Adobe, given that generative AI capabilities have made major advances recently.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026
But he is also a skeptic of preemption when neither Congress nor the Constitution has explicitly stripped away some traditional power from the state.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2026
Thus in 1776, even Thomas Paine, a religious skeptic, drew from the Bible to make his famous case for American Independence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Cooksey witnessed firsthand the conversion of a skeptic into a believer in April 1938, while he was traveling back east on what amounted to a sales mission.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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