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suppose

[suh-pohz, suh-pohst] / səˈpoʊz, səˈpoʊst /




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"I'd managed for so long, but I suppose I knew that the hair wasn't always going to be there and something needed to be done," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

“I suppose when I look through 250, 300 years since the Industrial Revolution, for every new technology, we’ve heard the same story of this being negative for jobs,” Reid said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

I suppose that’s how I played it,” he said with a chuckle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

If this is the only way you view him, I suppose that’s fair.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

If I had just looked at his royal costume, I suppose I could have been impressed, though gold wasn’t so impressive to me anymore.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

From his deck, Evans supposes he can see between 50,000 and 100,000 galaxies, each containing tens of billions of stars.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

"What am I supposed to make of this? We're going to war," Irinkov told AFP as he trimmed the plants in his garden on a windy day.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Then, artificial intelligence on the platform identifies patterns that lead to regretted purchases, which is ultimately supposed to help users spend less.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The chips are supposed to flag stolen cars and trucks, but because the new plates are valid, the vehicles are never listed as stolen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

It suggests demand is outrunning what suppliers can make, a dynamic that higher interest rates are supposed to tamp down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Wasn’t I supposed to be giving you pointers?”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

“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 always prefer the facts to words, or supposing things," said Arteta.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

Russell was hired by and lampooned both Democrats and Republicans, tilting his humor “toward whoever’s in power” and supposing that “it will even out on Judgment Day.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

“What with being banned from the Archives and all. Still, I’m supposing you’d rather know....”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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