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doubting Thomas

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a doubting Thomas
a person who refuses to believe anything until they are given proof. He's a real doubting Thomas - he simply wouldn't believe I'd won the car until he saw it with his own eyes.
See also: doubt
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Like that doubting Thomas of 2,000 years ago, dairy producers are notorious for not trusting what they can't see.
Dairy Talk by Dairy Today
Her astute analysis of Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas explores the limits of sensory knowledge and the consequences of a mistaken emphasis upon such an access to certainty.
Ellen Spolsky. Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early ... by Rhu, Lawrence F. / Renaissance Quarterly
Then abruptly, the road to Utopia is blocked by a tractor belonging to the movie's resident Doubting Thomas (Cane regular Donald Pilon).
Gilles Carle and La Vraie Nature de Bernadette saintly sinner, sinful ... by Alioff, Maurie / Take One
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