supposition
noun
sup·po·si·tion
ˌsə-pə-ˈzi-shən 
1
: something that is supposed : hypothesis
2
: the act of supposing
Examples of supposition in a Sentence
a supposition that proved correct
This is just idle supposition.
Recent Examples on the Web
Hence, the doctors’ hypothetical supposition literally cannot occur under existing law.
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Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
But efforts to tamp down rumors and supposition may have backfired after royal observers noticed inconsistencies in the photo’s details.
—Brian Melley, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2024
Regardless, prepare yourself for a wave of supposition that’s going to be as unrelenting as the Arctic blast consuming the country.
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
This supposition led to a whole bunch of experimentation with Cloudflare page rules and cache rules, increasing the scope of caching.
—Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
But Man the Hunter's contributors often ignored evidence, sometimes in their own data, that countered their suppositions.
—Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2023
With each that emerges comes the supposition that things are about to get worse.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 10 Sep. 2023
Within six weeks of the bombings, U.S. and Japanese expert teams were in both cities studying the biological impact of radiation while saying nothing about their suppositions of its dangers.
—Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2023
That supposition proved fateful, as Ortiz, Kanagawa and deBessonet fashioned a newfangled Milky White, one with an interior life — or at least one far more lovable than the cow statue in the 1987 original production.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
But efforts to tamp down rumors and supposition may have backfired after royal observers noticed inconsistencies in the photo’s details.
—Brian Melley, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2024
Regardless, prepare yourself for a wave of supposition that’s going to be as unrelenting as the Arctic blast consuming the country.
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
This supposition led to a whole bunch of experimentation with Cloudflare page rules and cache rules, increasing the scope of caching.
—Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
But Man the Hunter's contributors often ignored evidence, sometimes in their own data, that countered their suppositions.
—Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2023
With each that emerges comes the supposition that things are about to get worse.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 10 Sep. 2023
Within six weeks of the bombings, U.S. and Japanese expert teams were in both cities studying the biological impact of radiation while saying nothing about their suppositions of its dangers.
—Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2023
That supposition proved fateful, as Ortiz, Kanagawa and deBessonet fashioned a newfangled Milky White, one with an interior life — or at least one far more lovable than the cow statue in the 1987 original production.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
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supposition
noun
sup·po·si·tion
ˌsəp-ə-ˈzish-ən
1
: something that is supposed
2
: the act of supposing
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