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adjective

Definition of presupposednext
as in presumed

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presupposed

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verb

past tense of presuppose
as in assumed
to take as true or as a fact without actual proof the book presupposes its readers will already know something about the subject

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for presupposed
  1. assumed
  2. alleged
  3. presumed
  4. believed
  5. supposed
  6. hypothetical
  7. unproved
  8. unproven
Verb
  • On the other end, Gibbs began to slither his way into open space, and the Lions assumed full control.
    Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • As an incentive for the teams to stick around, the city assumed ownership of the land but agreed to give it back to the teams at the expiration of a ground lease in 2023, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of assumed
Adjective
  • The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was arrested in Pakistan in 2003, while Osama bin Laden, whose Al Qaeda terrorist group planned the attacks, was killed there by U.S. forces in 2011.
    Dean Pan, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • But multiple states have sued TikTok for alleged harm to kids via its addictive features.
    April Rubin, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of alleged
Verb
  • This fateful decision meant that, when he is presumed to have fallen ill on his walk, Mosley was unable to raise the alarm.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Misch also faces charges in a high-profile kidnapping and presumed murder that took place in Hayward in 1989.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of presumed
Verb
  • Estimates of Gaza’s Christian population range from roughly 800 to more than 1,000, although hundreds are believed to have left for Egypt, Canada and Australia since the war began.
    Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Bells in the church, with a gold cross on its steeple visible on Broadway and surrounding blocks, are believed to be more than 170 years old.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of believed
Adjective
  • His supposed final chapter with the Jets would end with one year lost to injury and then a four- or five-win season.
    Chris Branch, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Part of the vetting process includes verifying links without clicking through and verifying identities of people submitting supposed offers.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of supposed
Adjective
  • Combating The Threat Clearly, GPS spoofing is no longer a hypothetical problem, nor one limited to far-off zones of conflict.
    Eric Updyke, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • These harms are inextricable from the idea of superintelligence, because experts do not currently know how to align these hypothetical systems with human values.
    Tharin Pillay, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of hypothetical
Adjective
  • And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.
    Michael Lynch, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of unproved
Adjective
  • Many desperate families come forward with unproven remedies, and we were grouped in with them—just another set of parents believing in a miracle cure.
    Chase Malackowski, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Stock plummeted ~50% after NVIDIA’s CEO stressed quantum’s 20-year horizon, illustrating risk in overpaying for unproven near-term earnings.
    GuruFocus, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of unproven
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