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

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

"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

The options market also tended to presuppose that the distant future would look more like the present than it usually did.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis