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View definitions for supposed

supposed

adjective as in assumed

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adjective as in presumed

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“If you have the person who is supposed to focus on Games delivery worried about bedsheets in the Olympic village, then they’re not focused on the right thing.”

The nation’s biggest cities were supposed to be the places where the economy was working.

From Slate

Although defense secretaries are expected to carry out the president’s policies, the chief of the main intelligence agency is supposed to be rigorously independent—and Ratcliffe is anything but that.

From Slate

It was supposed to have been cleared.

From BBC

As a member of the National Guard, he was supposed to protect President Joe Biden's inauguration, despite the fact that he denies the outcome of the 2020 election.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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