suppose

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as in to guess
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement if we suppose a minimum profit of $10,000 from the charity auction, we should be able to pay for the family's medical expenses

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Recent Examples of suppose And he certainly wasn't supposed to. Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025 Everything in your body tells you you're not supposed to like it. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025 It’s supposed to feel like alignment. Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025 So what are they supposed to watch during the Halloween season? Brian Truitt, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for suppose
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Verb
  • Frankly, there had been speculation for years, entire Reddit threads guessing about Hemsley’s sexuality.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Gosh, guess all that talk about Antifa and George Soros money is a myth.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So there’s a risk in assuming that there’s somebody guarding the gates and that the technology will only go so far.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Likewise, a detailed historical analysis by Nancy Morawetz, Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law, and Natasha Fernández-Silber immigration attorney and researcher, cautions against assuming there is a comprehensive, one-size-fits-all registration system.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • However, Duan cautions against thinking that AI will replace engineers.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Business leaders and boosters—if not the public library’s archivist—thought rumors and legends and sub-cellars, basements, coal chutes, and other subterranean utility spaces made for a marketable product.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • The temperature change — a drop of 20C/35F Poch said — was cited as a ‘massive risk’ for injuries by the USMNT head coach after a 2-1 win in which Christian Pulisic suffered a muscle strain.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, authorities said several companies operated on the Accurate Energetic Systems property, but the blast happened in an area operated by Rio Ammunition.
    Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • Price contends the Jameson portion of the USGS report is outdate and inaccurate, pointing to a much more recent 2025 third-party review from Sproule ERCE energy consultants that estimates the Jameson basin could hold 9 billion net barrels of recoverable crude oil.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The first collision was estimated to have occurred at a speed of around 37 mph.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Its modest following often dismissed those posts as fakes, presuming the quartet staged spooky stuff for clicks.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Courts, for their part, developed legal doctrines that require them to presume the President’s good faith in deferring to him.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But even working with young elite athletes, Wolff believes everyone should take it a little easier on the generation.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Metcalf, however, believes that her character is only partially to blame for the serial killer's actions.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The two-point try was unsuccessful, but at 17-12, the game was within reach if Houston could figure something out on defense.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Liberation seems to have figured, too, in Elizabeth McCracken’s novel about her mother, The Hero of This Book.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Suppose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppose. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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