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

But efforts to tamp down rumors and supposition may have backfired after royal observers noticed inconsistencies in the photo’s details.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 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

We had our own kind of fame, based mostly on the rich girls' supposition and our own silence.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez