presuppose

Example Sentences

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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

“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