suppositious
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In a year when snooker's maximum break, once considered as suppositious as the Himalayan Yeti, has repeatedly shown up for the cameras, it fell to O'Sullivan to show that nobody does it better.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are disciplined largely by frequent warnings against dangers, actual and suppositious, of which they remain acutely conscious throughout life.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
Furthermore, I have not even told you under what conditions we are able to get the deepest insight into that suppositious "fundamental language," or from which field we gain the most information.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
They are grounded on some suppositious set of circumstances, and declare how some given cause would operate in those circumstances, supposing that no others were combined with them.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
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