as in skeptic
a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something
Father Henry is always happy to debate any questioner of the faith
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Recent Examples of questioner
Bondi arrived armed with personal attacks against individual Democratic senators and lobbed them at her questioners when pressed on a range of topics.
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Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025
The bullet passed near his team members and the questioner standing directly in front of him.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry
joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025
The bullet passed near his team members and the questioner standing directly in front of him.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry
joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for questioner
skeptic
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But some skeptics continue to believe the interpreter may have taken a fall to protect the player or the league, which is still shadowed by both all-time-hits leader Pete Rose’s gambling saga in the 1980s as well as the Black Sox World Series conspiracy fix of 1919.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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Trump, once a skeptic of digital assets, is now a full-fledged crypto mogul.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Questioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/questioner. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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