suspicioned

past tense of suspicion, chiefly dialect

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Verb
  • The alternative would have been shutting down pre-orders after that guessed number and marking the devices out of stock.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Who’d have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery?
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Since Xi Jinping assumed power in 2012, Chinese stories have increasingly included nods to Chinese nationalist (not just communist) soldiers fighting bravely, thus placing a strong, victorious, and morally righteous China at the forefront of the postwar global order.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
  • On the play Warner got hurt, the 49ers were missing a right defensive end, and coaches mistakenly assumed practice-squad call-up Trevis Gipson stayed on the field to fill that role after racing down on kickoff coverage and making the initial hit on a tackle.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some suspected a secret government weapons test, or a bomb planted in a plot to mine diamonds under the lake, while others heard tales of old witches turning into savannah buffalo and plunging into the lake.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • These problems, which many of us suspected were issues coming into this season, can’t be argued based on the team’s 1-6 start, and how this 2025 rendition of South Florida’s NFL franchise has performed in those seven games.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Here, teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
  • So, my vocal cords, they’re supposed to look parallel.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The tour was set to kick off at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, where the trio played what until now was thought to be their final show in 2015.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Parents are presumed to love their children and have their best interest at heart.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The Lachman Fire was quickly contained but appears to have rekindled after it was presumed to be extinguished – leading to the Palisades fire amidst crushing heat and hurricane level Santa Ana winds on January 7.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Suspicioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suspicioned. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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