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"I think that's the main thing. That doesn't presuppose the outcome of the negotiation," Carney added.

From BBC ● May 6, 2025

"Today's announcement does not presuppose or any way suggest the outcome of the investigations into the tragic incident," he said in a statement.

From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2023

It's worth considering what such a loophole-sized theory would presuppose: that hidden variables were encoded at the very beginning of time and space, deterministically setting everything into motion until spacetime's end.

From Scientific American ● May 20, 2023

"There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations."

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2023

Again, all special studies presuppose certain fundamental types of things.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Every technological system presupposes some notion of what human beings are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The wisdom-of-crowds argument presupposes that the masses possess some recondite knowledge that can be unlocked by allowing individuals to express themselves as part of an anonymous mob.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

But it also presupposes a grim reality: that some civilian deaths might be proportional.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

But for many of us, a final resting place presupposes that one has had a final living place.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023

Because for a private citizen to become a prince presupposes virtue or Fortune, it appears that either the one or the other of these two things should partially mitigate many of the problems.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

But such arguments presupposed fairy-tale versions of families, in which a child’s sexual identity or religious affiliation never leads to exile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

They also presupposed that the symptoms reported established the existence of a genuine, novel condition akin to traumatic brain damage, only without an obvious injury.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 6, 2023

Of course, that presupposed the pilot had time for such a course.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2021

Nothing against you, but you presupposed that everyone in Paris is rich, which isn’t true.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2021

It presupposed a high level of military discipline and an awesome degree of obedience by subordinates to their lawful superiors It assumed that wars had a beginning and an end.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

But bundle theory allows us to make sense of a thing without presupposing a mythical form, or “something I know not what!”

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

But Bender says she and her colleagues are not presupposing that Overmann’s MET-based ideas are correct.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2021

First off, that’s presupposing that Nora is actually telling the truth, which I will neither confirm or deny.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2017

More problematic, considering current events, the story line inadvertently serves as a cautionary tale for filmmakers, underscoring the inherent challenges of presupposing a ripped-from-the-headlines timeliness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2017

But Proudhon transposed into this purely empiric idea a moral element, by presupposing equality and justice as necessary to exchange.

From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Ernst Viktor Zenker