- present participle of suspect.
suspecting
Example Sentences
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People outside Wall Street will probably say they don’t know, while those who work in finance, suspecting a trap, may hedge their bets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Movies rarely venture so far into the hearts of ordinary people trying to do their best but suspecting they have made a great many irreparable mistakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
It is a notifiable disease so anyone suspecting their animals may have it must report it to to a vet, local divisional veterinary office or to Daera directly.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
This policy, she explains, “tramples the constitutional requirement that officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.”
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
She must have tucked it away there before the war, suspecting perhaps that there would not be any more for a while.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
