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I doubt it

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noun

  1. a card game, the object of which is to rid oneself of all cards, in which the first player places aces face down on the table and the others follow, in turn, with cards of the next lower rank, adding at will other cards, except that if such deception is successfully challenged, the player must pick up all the cards then on the table.


Example Sentences

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“I’d like to think that this time is different…but I doubt it,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal

He suggested the board had acted "in the white heat of press excoriation" and concluded: "The lesson for detractors of the BBC is leak and launch. Will the departures of two of our most senior, respected and loved executives make the BBC stronger? Somehow, I doubt it very much."

From BBC

“I doubt it is plague. But I hope it is not the chicken pox.”

From Literature

Asked if the US was going to war against Venezuela, the US president told CBS' 60 Minutes: "I doubt it."

From BBC

"Hopefully it'll be peaceful. I doubt it."

From BBC