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She paints a vivid picture, but we must remember it is all mere supposition.supposition = something supposed (rather than something known to be so)
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It is a foolish supposition.supposition = assumption
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It is an unsupportable supposition.supposition = something supposed (rather than something known to be so)
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It was cloudy, the kind of day where the sun is a supposition. (source)supposition = belief (rather than something that can clearly be seen to exist)
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But contrary to the Count's supposition, he was not adding a rendering of the bar to his collection of hotel interiors. (source)supposition = assumption or guess
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We've made some hypotheses, some suppositions, but nobody really knows what the nests were like. (source)suppositions = guesses or beliefs
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Langdon could scarcely believe his own supposition, and yet, considering who had given this stone cylinder to them, how he had given it to them, and now, the inlaid Rose on the container, Langdon could formulate only one conclusion. (source)supposition = belief or assumption
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There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble. (source)suppositions = assumptions or ideas
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He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in spite of himself. (source)supposition = belief
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He looked for solutions, he made suppositions, he tried to analyze long-term scenarios, in order to carefully assess the potential outcomes. (source)suppositions = guesses or theories
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Such a supposition ... is altogether inconsistent with real existence; (source)supposition = something put forth to believe as true
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As soon as her doctor allowed her to put her foot out-of-doors she hurried up to Green Gables, bursting with curiosity to see Matthew and Marilla's orphan, concerning whom all sorts of stories and suppositions had gone abroad in Avonlea. (source)suppositions = ideas, guesses, or assumptions
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Resenting this supposition, which had never occurred to me, I looked away from him and out the window, at his depressing view of the white brick building across the street.† (source)
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People engaged in the most fantastic suppositions, and instead of feeling calmer they were twice as anxious as before.† (source)
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She knew well there had to be such forms of bureaucratic supposition.† (source)
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A naturalistic scientist will exclusively rely on natural phenomena—not on either rationalistic suppositions or any form of divine revelation.† (source)
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