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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

I can't presuppose that these medical advancements wouldn't have happened.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 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

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

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

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

The rosary presupposes our boredom, propensity to distraction, and impatience with dull routine and attempts to transmute these failings into the virtues of faith, hope and charity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Explaining consciousness with a concept that presupposes consciousness strikes me as circular reasoning—cheating.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 26, 2023

The label presupposes a kind of radical bravery in curation, as if a gallery or museum that shows a self-taught artist is sticking its neck out to do so, even if that’s not necessarily true.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2021

He emphasized that that in no way presupposed that Berman knew her killer.

From Fox News ● May 21, 2021

It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a “real” world where “real” things happened.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

When one knows, one cannot help presupposing some sort of knowledge on the part of the querist, and where this is absent the answer we can give is of no use.

From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Gertrude Jekyll