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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
Rather than believing that humankind devised AGI, there will be a supposition that a special or magical force beyond our awareness has opted to confer AI with human-like qualities.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Just go along with the supposition that AGI and ASI are not in the picture.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
In January 2024, Searchlight quietly returned the rights of Magazine Dreams to its filmmakers: the active supposition being that a Majors star vehicle was too radioactive to release, especially for the prestige art-house studio division of Disney.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
Yet as Gee points out, to date, there are still only suppositions, rather than conclusive evidence about why hominins made the transition to a bipedal lifestyle.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Just go along with the supposition that AGI and ASI are not in the picture.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
In January 2024, Searchlight quietly returned the rights of Magazine Dreams to its filmmakers: the active supposition being that a Majors star vehicle was too radioactive to release, especially for the prestige art-house studio division of Disney.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
Yet as Gee points out, to date, there are still only suppositions, rather than conclusive evidence about why hominins made the transition to a bipedal lifestyle.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supposition
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But 63% of respondents rated call spoofing among their top five challenges in outbound voice and the second most common hypothesis as to why existing customers are not answering calls.—
James Garvert,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Oddly enough, a different kind of neutrino, called a tau neutrino, is one hypothesis that some scientists have put forth as the cause of the anomalous signals.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
20 June 2025
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The question of where atoms comes from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists like me only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.—
Stephen L. Levy,
The Conversation,
23 June 2025
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Where Iran could turn to rebuild its decimated air defenses, when the smoke from this war finally clears, is anyone’s guess.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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However, that was based on the assumption that the district would receive $300 million in additional funding from the state or the city, which hasn’t materialized.—
Kate Armanini,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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Those pages are a garbled mess, and Thomas spends much of them starting from the assumption that his conclusions are true.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
27 June 2025
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Years earlier, Leonardo had performed his own study of proportions, based on the theories of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius.—
Steven Strogatz,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
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By cultivating a multitude of such microbial habitats, the researchers can compare them and develop theories of how ecological communities work.—
Gabriel Popkin,
Quanta Magazine,
16 June 2025
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In the absence of a culprit, rumor, speculation and conjecture took hold amid a press feeding frenzy.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
25 June 2025
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With a sense of flair and confidence, many of these prognostications can be easily misread as somehow a bushel of facts and knowns, rather than a bundle of opinions and conjecture.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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Preparing to deliver her pivotal monologue that would serve as a thesis for the entire season.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
19 June 2025
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But Lee’s thesis is that people who once watched sports on TV aren’t watching anymore because the cost is too high.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
19 June 2025
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More specifically, America’s land-grant institutions, created by and for the people, are uniquely positioned to rewrite the value proposition for higher education for the next generation.—
Walter Carter,
Time,
21 June 2025
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Author Paul Fischer shares that after Steven Spielberg quickly rejected the proposition of using a real shark in the movie, his production team shifted to construct a mechanical great white.—
Logan Holland,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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“Supposition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supposition. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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