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suppositious

[suhp-uh-zish-uhs] / ˌsʌp əˈzɪʃ əs /




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In a year when snooker's maximum break, once considered as suppositious as the Himalayan Yeti, has repeatedly shown up for the cameras, it fell to O'Sullivan to show that nobody does it better.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2025

By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars.

From Time Magazine Archive

But so far everything has been purely suppositious.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

Now, what's the use of arguing suppositious cases when I'm pressed for time?

From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by David Dwight Wells

They are grounded on some suppositious set of circumstances, and declare how some given cause would operate in those circumstances, supposing that no others were combined with them.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill




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