supposition
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Historians from Albany or Troy, N.Y., may object to the supposition that Philadelphia was the national headquarters of the early cast-iron stove industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The investor supposition was they likely wouldn’t become acquisition targets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2025
Kim, the deputy director of North Korea's propaganda department, said Seoul's claim was an "unfounded unilateral supposition and a red herring".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
You might leave the enjoyable “Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal” scratching your head over the supposition of the primacy of an art and science “collision.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
We had our own kind of fame, based mostly on the rich girls' supposition and our own silence.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing supposition
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)
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"The Pit and the Pendulum," Vocabulary from the short story
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