predeterminations

noun

plural of predetermination
as in assumptions

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  1. assumptions
  2. theories
  3. presumptions
  4. hypotheses
  5. speculations
  6. biases
  7. conjectures
Noun
  • If an employee hesitates or overcommits, avoid making assumptions or asking defensive questions.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The alternative is to allow each side’s strategy to reinforce the other’s worst assumptions until escalation begins to look less like a choice than an inevitability.
    — Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of assumptions
Noun
  • Without a direct and blanket statement in the tradition providing a rationale, European and Indian scholars have proposed a variety of theories to explain Hindu divine morphology.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Astrophysicists have several theories for what dark matter could be.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of theories
Noun
  • These were all reasonable presumptions at that time but would also require years of data to evaluate.
    — David N. Hackney, STAT, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Mungiu refuses to supply easy answers or simple paths to identification in this compelling provocation, which poses unresolvable questions to viewers about our biases and presumptions.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of presumptions
Noun
  • Until then, readers should take these issues as interesting hypotheses and case discussions.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The models have to suss them out by taking actions in the game, seeing what happens, forming hypotheses, and then taking more actions to test those theories.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of hypotheses
Noun
  • Such speculations reflect the richness of possibilities that the new work opens up.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Their speculations, although deemed inaccurate by later historians, helped shape popular understandings of the ancient druids.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of speculations
Noun
  • This complex situation calls for organizations to address AI's inherent biases in assessment.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The whole mess perfectly highlight how AI models can further biases deeply entrenched in their training data from the open web.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of biases
Noun
  • There have been a lot of conjectures, but little in the way of actual proof of what took place.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 May 2026
  • As part of the effort to prove these conjectures, Grothendieck proposed his notion of a scheme.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
Definition of conjectures
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