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supposition - use in sentences
Preposition: that
- people: There was no proof at the inquiry only supposition that people will use the bus.
- something: When water is near and a weight is missing it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water.
- practice: The supposition that practices would refer all cases to their local VI Center, which would then collect data, is incorrect.
Converse of object
- support: She also starts out the novel with a set of facts designed to support the suppositions in the novel.
- make: Peter makes a supposition about the individuals to whom he writes.
- have: Until then we have only supposition to rely on to place Charlie in history.
- confirm: We use a reference book just to look up the odd fact or confirm a supposition.
- remain: This might actually back your points very well, but it remains a supposition.
- base: Since many of the kings are supposition based solely on the bible, it piles supposition on top of supposition.
Adjective modifier
- pure: But it turns out that this is pure supposition based on a small sample size, preconceptions and guesswork.
- latter: I was inclined from the first to the latter supposition.
- reasonable: There is therefore a need to understand the range of each variable for which linearity might be a reasonable supposition.
- natural: The British Queen had arrived at New York on November 23, and it would be a natural supposition that Gouraud landed then.
- personal: What determines whether a term has material, simple or personal supposition?
- such: He made a grim effort to dismiss all such suppositions.
Modifies a noun
- yesterday: I made the supposition yesterday that the remark was probably deliberate.
- cannot: But such a supposition cannot but remain highly hypothetical.
Noun used with modifier
- material: Material supposition is when a term stands for a linguistic item as such.
Preposition: of
- knowledge: It is in this operation of transference that the supposition of knowledge is situated.
- science: We disagree again because I think that as long as correspondence works the suppositions of science are being upheld.
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