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as in hypotheses
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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as in guesses
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 assumptions
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 suppositions
One of the big suppositions behind the big data center boom is that the most cutting edge AI models will be at least as large, if not larger, than the leading models that exist today.
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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
She’s bemused by suppositions about the advantages of her family legacy, which in reality boasts a centuries-deep ledger of addiction, estrangement, and untimely death.
—Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
But that premise assumes two suppositions not in evidence.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
She’s bemused by suppositions about the advantages of her family legacy, which in reality boasts a centuries-deep ledger of addiction, estrangement, and untimely death.
—Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
But that premise assumes two suppositions not in evidence.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suppositions
Noun
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This flexible system allows performers to switch between hypotheses of how dinosaurs might have sounded.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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Investigators initially had 12 hypotheses about what caused the deadly collapse, per The Miami Herald.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The combination means an offline cracking attack can make billions of guesses per second, a thousandfold advantage over the same password hashed by non-Kerberos authentication methods.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
10 Sep. 2025
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As demographic changes redefine the workforce, leaders must reorient themselves to interrogate their own mindsets, assumptions and lived experiences in order to lead and steward a workforce that looks, thinks and believes differently than the one they may have been trained to manage.—
Heather V. MacArthur,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The firm said Netflix has won the streaming wars with its strong content and has higher longer-term margin assumptions as its content generates more revenue.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Manhattan district attorney’s office contends that there are no double jeopardy issues because neither of Mangione’s cases has gone to trial and because the state and federal prosecutions involve different legal theories.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
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The case boiled down to video of the incident and dueling theories by defense and prosecution experts on police use of force.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Legacy cryptographic workflows, certificate authorities and identity systems are often tightly coupled to on-premises environments, which are often siloed.—
Julian Durand,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Suppositions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppositions. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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