supposition
Example Sentences
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The investor supposition was they likely wouldn’t become acquisition targets.
From Barron's • Sep. 26, 2025
You might leave the enjoyable “Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal” scratching your head over the supposition of the primacy of an art and science “collision.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024
People believe what they want to believe; they can seize any spurious supposition and hold it close as a revealed truth.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
Mr Nixon assumed the cows would either return or stop to graze on grass verges but that "supposition... was proved to be fundamentally and fatally wrong".
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023
The supposition that Remedios the Beauty possessed powers of death was then borne out by four irrefutable events.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing supposition
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)
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"The Pit and the Pendulum," Vocabulary from the short story
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