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“We’re obviously very skeptical about the true purpose of these wellness checks,” she said.

Sales of office buildings have slowed, in part because large institutional investors are skeptical that property values will appreciate enough to resell them at a profit after five years, as is common practice.

But Garry South, a Democratic strategist who twice helped elect Gray Davis governor, is highly skeptical.

But the economy is also much different from what it was a generation ago when the U.S. was more of a manufacturing giant, and many are skeptical of Trump’s promise to bring back those days.

There’s a habit of claiming that a portrait means to “capture an essence” or “reveal interiority” concealed within the subject, but I’m skeptical of such assertions.