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suspicioning

verb

present participle of suspicion, chiefly dialect
as in guessing
to form an opinion from little or no evidence no one will ever suspicion that I'm the one who pulled the prank

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suspicioning
  1. guessing
  2. assuming
  3. thinking
  4. suspecting
  5. supposing
Verb
  • Director Chloe Okuno builds an atmosphere of dread, keeps the audience guessing and subtly underlines the film’s message about gaslighting and misogyny.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 14 Sep. 2026
  • One payment beats guessing whether a message is safe to click, reply to, or pay through.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of guessing
Verb
  • Paying attention to these factors can provide a useful starting point rather than assuming one solution will work for everyone.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
  • However, Ujiié cautioned against assuming any simple relationship between a species’ genetic identity and its shell chirality.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of assuming
Verb
  • Opponents used to start thinking — well, worrying — about Garrett on Mondays, and that continued all the way through Sunday’s game.
    — Zac Jackson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of thinking about what can be crammed in for the end of the year, Q4 should be about laying out a plan to hit the ground running in Q1.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of thinking
Verb
  • In the r/Solidcore subreddit, one expressed frustration with the fitness studio’s lack of communication after suspecting their ringworm infection came from the Downtown Brooklyn location.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 14 July 2026
  • Oceanside Police Captain Nick Nunez told KNSD that officers are not suspecting foul play.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026
Definition of suspecting
Verb
  • More recently, other experts have advised American farmers to go all out growing soybeans, supposing they will be needed by the Chinese or somebody.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Even supposing the pledges in the 1990s documents amounted to a crime, the legal deadline for bringing mortgage fraud charges has expired.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
Definition of supposing
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“Suspicioning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suspicioning. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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