suppose
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I suppose he wanted us to leave the theater smiling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Also, I am not sure if anyone can get a tune out of Alejandro Garnacho, but I suppose if anyone can it is Unai Emery.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
It’s hard to articulate exactly what Woke 1 is or, I suppose, was.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
So suppose AI delivers a modest 1% increase in U.S. life expectancy through better diagnosis and treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“Sure. I suppose they’ll have as good a selection as anywhere else. I’m game.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Anyway if the threat to labor markets were as dire as Mr. Amodei supposes, job losses would be happening already.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 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
From his deck, Evans supposes he can see between 50,000 and 100,000 galaxies, each containing tens of billions of stars.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Enterprise hardware is supposed to get cheaper after it ships.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The US carrier left San Diego last November on what was supposed to be a six-month assignment in the Pacific and South China Sea.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Carey dug deeper and saw that the hit to his score had happened after a debt collector, Tate and Kirlin, reported a supposed long-overdue payment.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Peters is not supposed to leave Colorado without permission from her parole officer, although she did visit Trump at the White House.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
It was supposed to be for the Future, but I never knew why the Future needed it.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“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
If we follow Núñez in supposing that the number sense doesn't represent numbers, then we need to say what it represents instead.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023
The pale boy, who I am supposing is named Mr. Gideon, stops and tips his bowler.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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