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presupposed

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verb

past tense of presuppose

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for presupposed
Verb
  • On the other end, Gibbs began to slither his way into open space, and the Lions assumed full control.
    Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • As an incentive for the teams to stick around, the city assumed ownership of the land but agreed to give it back to the teams at the expiration of a ground lease in 2023, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Afterward, he was released with several conditions, including no contact with the alleged victim and he is prohibited from traveling outside of Illinois.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of the alleged copper thieves is asked to contact investigators at 215-686-3093.
    Mitchell Willetts, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Misch also faces charges in a high-profile kidnapping and presumed murder that took place in Hayward in 1989.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • This fateful decision meant that, when he is presumed to have fallen ill on his walk, Mosley was unable to raise the alarm.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Estimates of Gaza’s Christian population range from roughly 800 to more than 1,000, although hundreds are believed to have left for Egypt, Canada and Australia since the war began.
    Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Bells in the church, with a gold cross on its steeple visible on Broadway and surrounding blocks, are believed to be more than 170 years old.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The problem is the mayor, the supposed guardian of city taxpayers, who apparently can’t say no and who appears to have used the contract talks to buy the manager’s loyalty.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2025
  • YouTubers are used to carefully scanning supposed offers to weed out the real ones from the fakes.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Proponents of the move say the reserve would act as a hedge against financial instability in a hypothetical future in which cryptocurrencies replace regular money issued by central banks.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Proponents argued that an investment in Bitcoin would help the government chip away at the $36 trillion national debt, and ensure that the United States remained dominant in a hypothetical future where the global economy runs on cryptocurrencies.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The federal government is, in effect, suddenly being run like an A.I. startup; Musk, an unelected billionaire, a maestro of flying cars and trips to Mars, has made the United States of America his grandest test case yet for an unproved and unregulated new technology.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2025
  • And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.
    Michael Lynch, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • One of the hardest parts of launching a food brand is that retailers often don’t want to take risks on new, unproven products.
    Dave Knox, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Early in the pandemic, Janet Woodcock, then the head of the FDA’s drug center, reportedly sprang into action to prevent widespread distribution of the unproven COVID treatment hydroxychloroquine over the orders of top Trump officials.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Presupposed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presupposed. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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