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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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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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The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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The causes of both events had been long debated, however one hypothesis has linked them to depletions in the Earth's protective ozone layer, such as might be caused by a supernova going off in local space.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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After some wild previous guesses, including Jeong thinking Pearl was Madonna, the panel had more reasonable (though obviously swayed by the night's theme) predictions for who could be under the mask.—
Jillian Sederholm,
EW.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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The person with the closest guess, without going over, gets to play the next game.—
Tasha Tsiaperas,
Axios,
17 Mar. 2025
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European countries are ditching their decades-old assumptions and becoming proactive players in their own right.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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However, many professionals in the field are beginning to acknowledge that these requirements stem from outdated assumptions.—
Jesse Rhoades,
The Conversation,
11 Mar. 2025
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This is a theory that has been championed by Polish theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski of the University of New Haven.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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The theory is soon put to rest, though, when Rivera Garza starts receiving strange messages from the killer, signed with the names of different female artists.—
Nicolás Medina Mora,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2025
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We are mostly left with conjecture and speculation.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
23 Feb. 2025
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Proving the full conjecture seemed prohibitively difficult.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Ensuring this technology stack is mature and affordable needs to be our central thesis and goal.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Our long-term thesis on underappreciated schizophrenia drug Cobenfy is still intact.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2025
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Whatever the case, Xiaomi flagships are in this odd space of being high value propositions in Asia while being premium priced in Europe.—
Ben Sin,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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Given the current political situation in the U.S., Lough recognizes the reality that his film might be a risky proposition for distributors who likely don’t want to run afoul of the current administration.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Supposition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supposition. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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