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"I think that's the main thing. That doesn't presuppose the outcome of the negotiation," Carney added.

From BBC ● May 6, 2025

It's worth considering what such a loophole-sized theory would presuppose: that hidden variables were encoded at the very beginning of time and space, deterministically setting everything into motion until spacetime's end.

From Scientific American ● May 20, 2023

Russian Arctic Ambassador Nikolay Korchunov, chair of the Senior Arctic Officials on the council, told Reuters the transition would "presuppose active and responsible participation of all Arctic Council member states in this preparatory process."

From Reuters ● Mar. 28, 2023

I can't presuppose that these medical advancements wouldn't have happened.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023

Again, all special studies presuppose certain fundamental types of things.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

For early-stage investors, who are making long-term bets and paying increasingly high entry valuations, this dynamic threatens the venture model that presupposes founders play the long game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

This view presupposes conflict and implies that the only way to deal with large carnivores is to kill or remove them.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2023

That presupposes that the forces driving EV adoption continue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

The label presupposes a kind of radical bravery in curation, as if a gallery or museum that shows a self-taught artist is sticking its neck out to do so, even if that’s not necessarily true.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

Because for a private citizen to become a prince presupposes virtue or Fortune, it appears that either the one or the other of these two things should partially mitigate many of the problems.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

They also presupposed that the symptoms reported established the existence of a genuine, novel condition akin to traumatic brain damage, only without an obvious injury.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 6, 2023

Unfortunately, it is these exact kinds of hollow parallels that make up the bulk of its presupposed substance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

Of course, that presupposed the pilot had time for such a course.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2021

Nothing against you, but you presupposed that everyone in Paris is rich, which isn’t true.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2021

It presupposed a high level of military discipline and an awesome degree of obedience by subordinates to their lawful superiors It assumed that wars had a beginning and an end.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

But bundle theory allows us to make sense of a thing without presupposing a mythical form, or “something I know not what!”

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

But Bender says she and her colleagues are not presupposing that Overmann’s MET-based ideas are correct.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2021

The experts said the term “victim” can appear prejudicial in a court of law, heavily influencing a jury by presupposing which people have been wronged.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

More problematic, considering current events, the story line inadvertently serves as a cautionary tale for filmmakers, underscoring the inherent challenges of presupposing a ripped-from-the-headlines timeliness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2017

Almost all kinds of game are attracted by gardens, presupposing, of course, that they are situated at a distance from houses, as these allotments are.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies