supposes

present tense third-person singular of suppose
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as in calculates
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement if we suppose a minimum profit of $10,000 from the charity auction, we should be able to pay for the family's medical expenses

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Recent Examples of supposes Hence, any thought experiment that presupposes an AGI often supposes an ASI. — Geoffrey Irving, Time, 3 Oct. 2026 Rock* supposes there’s a fork in the road where the Beatles take us one way and the Velvet Underground pull us somewhere else entirely. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026 Book banning supposes that children never age, never leave home, never become their own people outside their parents. — Rebecca Stafford, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 But that view wrongly supposes that Abundance was meant to be its own electoral lane. — Ryder Kessler, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026 Of course, this pre-supposes that Salah looks to leave Europe this summer as a free agent. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026 This is not true, unless, Miss Manners supposes, your definition of formality begins and ends with having to wear shoes. — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 17 June 2026 Farrell supposes that no high school baseball team in the nation has traveled as much as Orange Lutheran has. — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 2 May 2026 The first theory supposes that the Big Bang produced dense spots that didn’t collapse immediately. — Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supposes
Verb
  • Votes are tallied quickly because each ballot box calculates results locally and prints a paper summary.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The company calculates that this shift has resulted in a 20,790 ton reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, compared to using virgin materials.
    — Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In our example of the pond, simply comparing the number of possibilities assumes that each stone emits a wave independently.
    — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • For any executive whose roadmap assumes compute capacity coming online on schedule, that is now a line item.
    — Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Although the mattress developed some minor misshaping after a month of heavy use, Moon still thinks it’s packed with value.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Elon Musk thinks future economies could measure wealth using the laws of physics instead of dollars.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
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  • That the first foreign policy message after the victory went to Moscow, and through a Russian state outlet, says a good deal about where the new government’s instincts lie.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Because food can be scarce there and people fear theft, individuals will store rice in their dirt-floor homes, Wagner says, allowing close contact with the rats that infest the island.
    — Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • At full capacity, the company estimates that the new facility could feature approximately 600 employees.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • One recent analysis estimates that the Big Three took between 10 and 15 years to catch up with Japanese advances in production efficiency.
    — Rick Lazio, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Logan Wright, the author of Broken China, guesses that growth is now running at no more than 1% — and may even be zero.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The system consists of a predictive algorithm that guesses how a robot is broken, along with robotic manipulators that actually take the broken robot apart.
    — Kohava Mendelsohn, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Cancio also believes rising rents are to blame for the struggling businesses on Miracle Mile and the rest of the Gables commercial district.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The 20-minute call, which Aris believes the military monitored, offered a rare glimpse of how the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate is being held.
    — Lorcan Lovett, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The decree, which must be converted to law by parliament within 60 days, also automatically presumes that anyone over age 14 is capable of understanding their own actions, unless proven otherwise.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Homeownership has long been a marker of the American Dream, but this dream presumes autonomy, voice and equitable treatment.
    — Stephanie A. Dhuman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

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“Supposes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supposes. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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