How to Use supposition in a Sentence

supposition

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  • With each that emerges comes the supposition that things are about to get worse.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 10 Sep. 2023
  • However, there is no proof of that supposition since Hunter has not been with the team to this point.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • There’s one name on the list that supports this supposition.
    — Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • And that need for control is what takes me back to our supposition of a fake news critique lying at the heart of Far From Home.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 3 July 2019
  • There’s a supposition that all art, in its many forms, is an act of rebellion.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2021
  • That's a complete supposition, but this gets weirder by the day.
    — Fox News, 15 May 2018
  • At least then Google’s at the mercy of facts, not Twitter supposition.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 19 Aug. 2019
  • This was a completely baseless supposition and the child of a mind blinded by love.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2018
  • McCarthy brought some friends back to the town presumably on the supposition that the magic could be revived.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Nystrom: My supposition is that the Texans stand pat at both.
    — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The results from the study support Furst’s supposition.
    — Steve Tengler, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • This led some to fear the end of mankind, and has long fueled the supposition that the strain of influenza was particularly lethal.
    — Richard Gunderman, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2020
  • My take: That’s a fair amount of shaky supposition to suggest the Dolphins are not confident in Tannehill.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 18 May 2017
  • But that supposition may be unlikely, since Sevakis seems to have given birth to three children within the span of a few years.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 July 2022
  • And there were some doubts in my mind as to whether there was real validity to this supposition that music can fix our problems.
    — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 7 June 2019
  • But every former employee to whom The Post spoke shot down that supposition.
    — Nathan Grayson, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The supposition has remained a lighthearted joke between the two.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 June 2020
  • Latter-day Saints agreed with the supposition of devilish pedophiles running the world.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • But that supposition could be put to the test by a score that poses a major quandary for the selection committee: Georgia 49, Oregon 3.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
  • One of the few convincing suppositions about polar bears fishing comes from Labrador’s White Bear River.
    — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • One of the few convincing suppositions about polar bears fishing comes from Labrador’s White Bear River.
    — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • The supposition is that more free radicals are generated the longer smoke is exposed to UV light, so there’s a greater potential for health harm.
    — Christopher T. Migliaccio, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • The latter are critical because the supposition is that these are the groups which would have the most affinities with the Jomon, due to the culture and contacts of the Ainu which evident during the modern period.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2010
  • Prince’s grumbling supposition of anger and blame expressed the last days of the Obama era, when facts of black demoralization were left unaddressed.
    — Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2019
  • The act's supposition is that by then the fetus will feel pain when experiencing the violence of being aborted, and that this matters.
    — George Will, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Its listing is largely rhetoric-free, and makes no suppositions about the perpetrators in the absence of evidence.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Of course, this was always a ridiculous supposition by Trump: Mueller is leading a criminal probe and will go wherever the evidence leads.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Boudreaux said there could have been another person involved, perhaps as a getaway driver, but that is supposition at this point.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Critics say the state is embarking on a wholesale war on wildlife that is based on little more than emotion and supposition, and rejecting decades worth of management lessons.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
  • To which some will say Amazon aims to operate without workers, which is a supposition that is astounding for its foolishness.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022

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