presuppose

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

From BBC ● May 6, 2025

Russian Arctic Ambassador Nikolay Korchunov, chair of the Senior Arctic Officials on the council, told Reuters the transition would "presuppose active and responsible participation of all Arctic Council member states in this preparatory process."

From Reuters ● Mar. 28, 2023

In his work on the foundations of arithmetic, Frege noted that numbers are unique in that they presuppose a way of describing the stuff they quantify.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023

“Imagining death would presuppose a consciousness that death itself would negate.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022

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

This view presupposes conflict and implies that the only way to deal with large carnivores is to kill or remove them.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 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

The experts said the term “victim” can appear prejudicial in a court of law, heavily influencing a jury by presupposing which people have been wronged.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

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

Against the sky its towers and minarets held one's fancy by their very lightness and airiness, the lanterns and fleches presupposing a like grace and proportion in the edifice below.

From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton