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as in hypothesis
an idea that is the starting point for making a case or conducting an investigation
my supposition is that this grape variety, which flourishes in southern France, should do equally well here, given the similar climate
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2
as in guess
an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence
it's pure supposition on your part that there's something illegal going on next door
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as in assumption
something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning
worthless genetic research that was based on the erroneous supposition that acquired characteristics can be passed on to offspring
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Recent Examples of supposition
The supposition that the crime was committed accidentally seems equally implausible.
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Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
There weren’t any suppositions or guesses about what somebody was thinking or feeling or looked like or anything like that.
—Barbara Booth, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
Some scholars – even those who have been advocates of strong measures to compel CO2 emissions reductions – suggest that today’s climate activism suffers from a legacy of anti-capitalist suppositions about who is most responsible for warming temperatures.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Others were being medicated indefinitely on mere suppositions of mental illness.
—Christopher Damien, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
There weren’t any suppositions or guesses about what somebody was thinking or feeling or looked like or anything like that.
—Barbara Booth, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
Some scholars – even those who have been advocates of strong measures to compel CO2 emissions reductions – suggest that today’s climate activism suffers from a legacy of anti-capitalist suppositions about who is most responsible for warming temperatures.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Others were being medicated indefinitely on mere suppositions of mental illness.
—Christopher Damien, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supposition
Noun
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Colossal said its woolly mouse would enable its scientists to test hypotheses about the link between specific DNA sequences and physical traits that enabled the mammoth, which went extinct around 4,000 years ago, to adapt to life in cold climates.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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The hypothesis was that higher VO2 max would be associated with less brain shrinkage with age, which in turn would be associated with better cognitive scores.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Ora first chose Heidi Montag, but later piggybacked off of Thicke's guess of Bethenny Frankel.—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
6 Mar. 2025
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Los Angeles or even Texas would be reasonable guesses, but the answer is much more interesting.—
Joyce Chen,
Architectural Digest,
5 Mar. 2025
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The idea of receiving free money taps into our natural aversion to missing out and the default assumption that any message appearing to be from the government is legitimate.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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People will chew on the Broadway first of an Othello directed and lead-produced by black men—Leon and Brian Anthony Moreland, respectively—and cut their assumptions about that to fit their pre-existing views.—
Maya Singer,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2025
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And one of my favorite things is looking at other people’s fan theories online.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
28 Feb. 2025
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There are two main pieces of evidence in the theory running rampant in the comments.—
Fortesa Latifi,
Rolling Stone,
28 Feb. 2025
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And what started out as hopeful conjecture finally became a reality.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
20 Feb. 2025
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Weissmann wrote that the woman saw who shot her; her account wasn’t based on conjecture.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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Neal Mohan, who became YouTube’s CEO in February 2023, says the one-time thesis was that the platform could give a boost to homegrown creators by financing bigger-ticket productions — and then share in the upside.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2025
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If the cruelty was the point of the first Trump term, then the chaos is the thesis of the second.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
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Networking and interviews—When introducing yourself at networking events or in interviews, weave your value proposition into your elevator pitch.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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And that circles us back to the Denmark-buys-California proposition, the comic counterweight to Donald Trump’s.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Supposition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supposition. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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