suspecting

Example Sentences

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"It has been quieter for a bit, but I don't know if that's linked," a doubtful Yulia says, suspecting the strikes will restart at any moment.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

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

Those suspecting they have measles should call their medical provider before they go to the doctor’s office to avoid potentially exposing other patients, the Health Care Agency said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

But suspecting something is afoot is a world away from proving in court it really is.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

Later on, Úrsula had put candles on it and had prostrated herself before it, not suspecting that instead of a saint she was adoring almost four hundred pounds of gold.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez