supposition
Example Sentences
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Supposition was his guide: he said that he had never actually read anything about Native American cuisine.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 22, 2016
Supposition is that the selenium atoms acted as reflectors of x-rays, thus giving cancer cells a double bombardment of direct and indirect rays.
From Time Magazine Archive
Supposition: A pilot would maneuver it like any glider, to considerable distance if he chose.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1918, Fisher published his analysis in a paper entitled “The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
In the mean Time, I am very sure, that this is Nothing strain'd or forc'd in my Supposition.
From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard
Vocabulary lists containing supposition
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)
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"The Pit and the Pendulum," Vocabulary from the short story
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