How to Use supposition in a Sentence

supposition

noun
  • This is just idle supposition.
  • With each that emerges comes the supposition that things are about to get worse.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 10 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a supposition that all art, in its many forms, is an act of rebellion.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The past eight months have exposed both suppositions.
    — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • That's a complete supposition, but this gets weirder by the day.
    — Fox News, 15 May 2018
  • However, there is no proof of that supposition since Hunter has not been with the team to this point.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • This was a completely baseless supposition and the child of a mind blinded by love.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2018
  • At least then Google’s at the mercy of facts, not Twitter supposition.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 19 Aug. 2019
  • That kind of supposition is for amateurs.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
  • There weren’t any suppositions or guesses about what somebody was thinking or feeling or looked like or anything like that.
    — Barbara Booth, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
  • But that premise assumes two suppositions not in evidence.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
  • And there were some doubts in my mind as to whether there was real validity to this supposition that music can fix our problems.
    — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 7 June 2019
  • The supposition has remained a lighthearted joke between the two.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 June 2020
  • McCarthy brought some friends back to the town presumably on the supposition that the magic could be revived.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Slavik knocked Combs for lining up speaking engagements for as soon as next week with the supposition that he’d be released.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • This led some to fear the end of mankind, and has long fueled the supposition that the strain of influenza was particularly lethal.
    — Richard Gunderman, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Many of the suppositions used to take Chung’s money were unreasonable.
    — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Boudreaux said there could have been another person involved, perhaps as a getaway driver, but that is supposition at this point.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • But every former employee to whom The Post spoke shot down that supposition.
    — Nathan Grayson, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But that supposition may be unlikely, since Sevakis seems to have given birth to three children within the span of a few years.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 July 2022
  • That joins a long list of suppositions shattered by another unpredictable British vote.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 10 June 2017
  • Fear is a supposition, not a reality.
    — Deborah Huebsch, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2025
  • And that need for control is what takes me back to our supposition of a fake news critique lying at the heart of Far From Home.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 3 July 2019
  • Latter-day Saints agreed with the supposition of devilish pedophiles running the world.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Its listing is largely rhetoric-free, and makes no suppositions about the perpetrators in the absence of evidence.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • The act's supposition is that by then the fetus will feel pain when experiencing the violence of being aborted, and that this matters.
    — George Will, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • This supposition led to a whole bunch of experimentation with Cloudflare page rules and cache rules, increasing the scope of caching.
    — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Critics say the state is embarking on a wholesale war on wildlife that is based on little more than emotion and supposition, and rejecting decades worth of management lessons.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
  • But Kondo, as a theorist and not an experimentalist, was not the first to show that his supposition was correct.
    — Kenneth Chang, Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Prince’s grumbling supposition of anger and blame expressed the last days of the Obama era, when facts of black demoralization were left unaddressed.
    — Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2019

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