presupposed

Example Sentences

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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