suppose
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"If the water services do improve, then I suppose we have to pay for what we have."
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Somewhere along the way, I suppose I, too, absorbed the idea that there were shortcuts worth sharing and shortcuts better left unmentioned.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Which I suppose, for a gay man who’d spent the first 27 years of his life denying his sexuality to a family he feared wouldn’t understand, it was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
“There is no reason to suppose this has not continued.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
“Sure. I suppose they’ll have as good a selection as anywhere else. I’m game.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
We can only guess how the Romans came to call her Dido; Ms. MacDonald supposes it was an epithet meaning “the wanderer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
“Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s newest film, supposes that music has the power to conjure spirits past, present and evil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Big scientific discoveries tend to attract myths which supposes their creation to have occurred "at one moment by one person", but the overarching research "tends to need collaboration across national boundaries," he added.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025
The pathway for law students supposes that law schools will be involved in some level, Rooksby said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
"If your father supposes I bear him some enmity for that, it's only because he never knew Rodrik."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Shares of bigger companies are supposed to be less risky.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Positional rotations in the wide triangles for Tuchel were supposed to be the key attacking tactic England were to lean on throughout the tournament.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Bending Spoons is also a company that wasn’t supposed to exist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Beard: I was supposed to be wearing purple and she was going to wear green, and we were going to do the Isabella and Lizzie look at the end of “The Lizzie McGuire Movie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
He isn’t supposed to be in Manila in the first place, and who knows how much longer he’ll have to be there?
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“I would be a little leery of supposing that it’s a gaming of the system in order to get some unfair advantage,” Vaughn said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
“I and the other photographers on the boat were supposing he was going to make a kick-out, and that’s what he did. So I pushed the button.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
But just supposing the Lords backed down and the plan became law, there is no guarantee we will see a flight take off.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
After being asked if he knew why he had been stopped, the driver responded, “Yeah, because I was on the wrong side of the road,” further supposing that he must have missed an exit.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
You’re wastin’ your time. 8TH JUROR: Suppose you were the one on trial? 6TH JUROR: I’m not used to supposing.
From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
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