SUPPOSES Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

supposes

verb

present tense third-person singular of suppose

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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as in assumes

to form an opinion from little or no evidence what do you suppose he's going to do with the prize money he won?

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as in thinks

to have as an opinion voters wrongly supposed that the new mayor would be opposed to letting hazardous waste be transported through the city

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as in says

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof had always supposed that her father would bequeath the family farm to her

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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

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Economist Thomas Philippon calculates that weakened competition costs the typical household about $300 a month.

— Christopher Marquis, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
That said, its catalogue is only just over 4% Spanish origin by volume in Spain – half what Netflix has by volume and a quarter of Amazon, Ampere Analysis calculates.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of calculates

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This implicit passivity assumes that technology, rather than people, will determine AI’s impact on work.

— Byron Auguste, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
In the novel, likewise, the narrator assumes an almost Homeric guise, comparing current harbor gossip to chatter from the Phoenician, Cretan, Greek, and Roman eras.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumes

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And yet Tatham thinks there are lessons to be learned from the interactive world, as long as designers focus on real-world play.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Oil prices are just one headwind that Tudor Jones thinks the equity market needs to handle at the moment.

— Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of thinks

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Martin Zummach, an attorney who represents the officer who fired the shot that killed Kohen, says the attorney general's findings cleared his client of criminal wrongdoing.

— SOPHIE BATES, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
For developers managing a mix of AC and DC loads, Inam says the device collapses a number of machines—including a rectifier, an inverter, backup power and energy management—into a single unit four feet square and 12 feet high.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of says

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Chisell, who previously worked at Amazon, eBay and Starling Bank, estimates that Paysend can now deliver around 25% more engineering work with the same-sized team, but argues that getting results isn’t as simple as handing everyone the latest tech.

— Lindsay Dodgson, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
And Gartner estimates that 80% of neocloud providers will cease independent operations by 2030 because their revenues won’t cover their outgoings.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of estimates

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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

Definition of guesses

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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
But that logic presumes every single aspect of both studios’ production pipelines will continue to operate normally once Paramount and WBD become one.

— Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 22 Sep. 2026

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