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Noun
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Our job isn’t to keep everyone happy by confirming their assumptions.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026 -
The cost model for these units is based on current material, labor, and financing data for the first commercial deployment rather than theoretical assumptions regarding future mass production.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
Noun
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The exact reason why is debated by scientists, but theories include a huge collision in early Martian history, or unstable mantle plumes.—
Tom Brown,
Space.com,
25 May 2026
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Watch Pascal, Filoni, Weaver, and Favreau react to even more movie theories in the video above.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
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Ruben does little to dissuade Niall’s presumptions.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2026
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This notion was based on outdated presumptions of hillforts as being occupied by violent, prehistoric savages.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Drafting ideas, forming hypotheses, and developing an initial point of view should begin with them.—
Aytekin Tank,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Older children might like setting up an experiment by altering the balance of something essential, like water, for different plants and making hypotheses about what the right balance is.—
Jamie Siebrase,
Denver Post,
20 May 2026
Noun
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And even King Charles and Queen Camilla are faced with these speculations.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
3 May 2026
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While some had theories, including speculations of the site serving as an Underground Railroad route, researchers found little evidence to back those ideas up.—
Emily Curiel,
Kansas City Star,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Investigations by the Georgia secretary of state and independent reviews contradict the core allegations of the affidavit, which relies on witnesses who lack credibility and have biases that weren't disclosed to the magistrate judge, Lowell argued.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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One of the main arguments about using AI in research is its biases – which are undeniable, but humans have those too.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Like an enzyme that works as a catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction, collaboration ignites new ideas for conjectures.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
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The project grew out of group head Ido Kaminer’s 2019 Ramanujan Machine, an AI bot that seeks out new conjectures for calculating mathematical constants.—
Lyndie Chiou,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Predeterminations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predeterminations. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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