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presupposed

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verb

past tense of presuppose

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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
Adjective
  • Part of that guessing comes from a gap in our knowledge; Mangione went off the grid in the months leading up to the alleged murder.
    Max Chapnick, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Of Pete Hegseth’s alleged behavior with women and in proximity to a bottle, much has been published.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
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
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
  • The Italian American Christmas Eve tradition is believed to have originated with immigrants from southern Italy who missed the abundant seafood of the area.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • These were accompanied by supposed paper records confirming it to be thorium and uranium.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Kuzma was posed that hypothetical Sunday night, after the loss to the Kings.
    Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The vast majority of cosmologists believe all of these phenomena can be explained through the presence of dark matter, a hypothetical form of matter that is massive, electrically neutral and hardly, if ever, interacts with normal matter.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2025
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
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
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“Presupposed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presupposed. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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