PREDETERMINATIONS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

predeterminations

noun

plural of predetermination

as in assumptions

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Noun

Whether its underlying assumptions hold up against other observations, including measurements of cosmic expansion and the cosmic microwave background, remains an open question.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
Two agents with very different knowledge or assumptions may struggle to communicate or pursue the same goal.

— Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of assumptions

Noun

There are books about quilts and Medieval tablescapes and cultural theories about taste and magazines and something on ikebana and a DVD of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan.

— David Michon, Curbed, 11 Nov. 2026
If the results match, scientists can gain more confidence in their theories.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of theories

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These presumptions shifted the world’s discourse from how to limit carbon pollution to how to remove it from the atmosphere after the fact.

— Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
To many, not least the young, both literary culture and the world of bookselling are beginning a great new climb, calling into question many presumptions about the digital century and the market models that sustain it.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of presumptions

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The principle of justice calls for not exploiting a public's lack of information, cognitive biases, or lack of trust.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2026
Artist Taner Paşamehmetoğlu used tangrams, projectors and blank canvases to explain researcher Gabriel Simmons’ conclusion that generative AI mimics the moral biases of its users.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of biases

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Many mathematicians have stopped posting open conjectures and potential ideas at the end of their papers, for fear that they’ll be scraped by bots and fed into AI models.

— Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of conjectures

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