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suppose

[suh-pohz, suh-pohst] / səˈpoʊz, səˈpoʊst /




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Now suppose the same fund invests $500,000 in a health business and holds 10% after dilution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“I suppose once we got that far, everyone knows the deal.”

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

“I suppose when I look through 250, 300 years since the Industrial Revolution, for every new technology, we’ve heard the same story of this being negative for jobs,” Reid said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

I don’t think I knew that that was a realistic aspiration … until I was on it, I suppose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

There were several champagne bottles in the room, I suppose for the refreshment of Morton—and as I entered the room a cork popped with a dreadful noise, and I made for the door terrified.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The Romans of the Empire had much to be proud of, one supposes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

“Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s newest film, supposes that music has the power to conjure spirits past, present and evil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

Big scientific discoveries tend to attract myths which supposes their creation to have occurred "at one moment by one person", but the overarching research "tends to need collaboration across national boundaries," he added.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025

The pathway for law students supposes that law schools will be involved in some level, Rooksby said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2024

She supposes that you are far away from London, in Shropshire.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

She was supposed to be at the Ambassador Hotel the night of Kennedy’s assassination, she said, but her parents made her go to bed because she had school in the morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

While these systems "are normally on a closed network" and "are not supposed to be accessible from the Internet", a number of them ended up being exposed "to anyone with some basic knowledge", he added.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

You should also be sceptical of supposed debt solutions you might see on your social feeds.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

But she has a very close relationship with him and, even after her supposed heel turn, makes a sincere effort to get him treatment when he begins to struggle emotionally.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

He wondered what he was supposed to do with it.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

“I would be a little leery of supposing that it’s a gaming of the system in order to get some unfair advantage,” Vaughn said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

But just supposing the Lords backed down and the plan became law, there is no guarantee we will see a flight take off.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024

After being asked if he knew why he had been stopped, the driver responded, “Yeah, because I was on the wrong side of the road,” further supposing that he must have missed an exit.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

“What he wants is to come out of the vote, supposing there is one, politically strengthened with this renewed and amplified popular mandate,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

He watched her, supposing that he ought to go and comfort her, but something kept him rooted to the spot.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling


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