PREDETERMINATIONS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

predeterminations

noun

plural of predetermination

as in assumptions

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Noun

Li said conducting the study in that timeline was based on assumptions RT made about the success of a citizen ballot measure and the timing of a Caltrans project that have both since fallen through.

— Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026
This also means assumptions and perception, rather than reality, will often win out.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumptions

Noun

But there are many theories about why people are attracted to true crime, with serial killers being the stars of that world.

— Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Until then, it was thought bats might’ve emerged somewhere in North America, among other theories.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 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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Their science fair projects – a bird feeder and a device producing the smoothest smoothies – were also crafted with AI assistance after developing their own hypotheses and plans.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
The Danish company said further work is needed to confirm the hypotheses of two post-study analyses.

— Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of hypotheses

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Yella Beezy jury selection Court lasted more than eight hours on Monday, with attorneys from both sides trying to screen each person, their backgrounds and biases.

— CBS News, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
The danger is that leaders who spend all their time just approving answers then struggle to identify biases in their team's work.

— Erica Dhawan, Contributor, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of biases

Noun

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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