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as in to guess
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement if we suppose a minimum profit of $10,000 from the charity auction, we should be able to pay for the family's medical expenses

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Recent Examples of suppose For example, hospitals are never supposed to be military targets. The Dial, 18 Mar. 2025 By the numbers: Wilmore and Williams were initially supposed to be in space for just over a week. Avery Lotz, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025 How is Matt supposed to face Angela, Hector’s angry and devastated niece who knows all about the dirty cops who killed him? Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025 Yeah, he’s supposed to be touching down in seven months. Angel Diaz, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for suppose
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  • As fans of Meredith Grey's chaotic love life can probably guess, the scene in question was her one-night stand with T.R. Knight's George O' Malley.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Drop a comment with your own Masked Singer guesses below.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 19 Mar. 2025
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  • The act's fine print states that the president can only assume this authority once Congress has declared war.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
  • After all, the default for many people is not to intervene and assume everything's OK, even when things do seem amiss.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
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  • Why Skipping Is The Ultimate Plyometric Exercise Most think of skipping as something kids do.
    Jesse Pines, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • To make matters worse, Brooklyn’s family thinks that Brian is just using her for the trust fund that she’s inherited from her recently deceased father.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • The rest of the deal will happen at a valuation of about $7 billion, the sources said, giving the deal a rough blended valuation of $6.6 billion, albeit over multiple years.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Doherty says Cooper — who makes his acting debut in the series — impressed her.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • Denmark's total financial support to Greenland is estimated to be around $764.4 million a year, and the European Union (EU) contributes on average around €31.1 million annually.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Krill are used in products ranging from nutritional supplements to livestock feed, and the WWF estimates the Antarctic krill fishery to be worth about $250 million annually.
    Gabe Castro-Root, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
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  • His death follows that of the South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, who was reportedly found dead at her home by a friend and presumed to have died by suicide.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The statement also employed a common far-right misrepresentation of Hitler, who in fact privatized much of the government, outlawed labor unions and ordered the killing of hundreds of thousands of people presumed to be socialists and communists.
    Carlo Angerer, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2025
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  • Turk-Browne believes there are multiple possible explanations, including the theory that those recollections simply never make it to the long-term storage regions of the brain.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2025
  • About six people, believed to be teenagers, fled the house and ran into the nearby Edenwald Houses, according to police sources.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • This indicator looks at the point and figure charts of all S & P 500 members, and determines how many of them have most recently posted a buy signal using the point and figure methodology.
    David Keller, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Athena instantly figures it out: Amber murdered those other girls and kidnapped Jayna, using Bullock as a patsy.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025

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“Suppose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppose. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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