presuppose
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"I think that's the main thing. That doesn't presuppose the outcome of the negotiation," Carney added.
From BBC ● May 6, 2025
It's worth considering what such a loophole-sized theory would presuppose: that hidden variables were encoded at the very beginning of time and space, deterministically setting everything into motion until spacetime's end.
From Scientific American ● May 20, 2023
Russian Arctic Ambassador Nikolay Korchunov, chair of the Senior Arctic Officials on the council, told Reuters the transition would "presuppose active and responsible participation of all Arctic Council member states in this preparatory process."
From Reuters ● Mar. 28, 2023
But what about the workforce the fabs presuppose?
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
The options market also tended to presuppose that the distant future would look more like the present than it usually did.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Every technological system presupposes some notion of what human beings are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Explaining consciousness with a concept that presupposes consciousness strikes me as circular reasoning—cheating.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 26, 2023
That presupposes that the forces driving EV adoption continue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
The label presupposes a kind of radical bravery in curation, as if a gallery or museum that shows a self-taught artist is sticking its neck out to do so, even if that’s not necessarily true.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
Because for a private citizen to become a prince presupposes virtue or Fortune, it appears that either the one or the other of these two things should partially mitigate many of the problems.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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They also presupposed that the symptoms reported established the existence of a genuine, novel condition akin to traumatic brain damage, only without an obvious injury.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 6, 2023
Unfortunately, it is these exact kinds of hollow parallels that make up the bulk of its presupposed substance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
Nothing against you, but you presupposed that everyone in Paris is rich, which isn’t true.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2021
He emphasized that that in no way presupposed that Berman knew her killer.
From Fox News ● May 21, 2021
It presupposed a high level of military discipline and an awesome degree of obedience by subordinates to their lawful superiors It assumed that wars had a beginning and an end.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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But bundle theory allows us to make sense of a thing without presupposing a mythical form, or “something I know not what!”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
But Bender says she and her colleagues are not presupposing that Overmann’s MET-based ideas are correct.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2021
The experts said the term “victim” can appear prejudicial in a court of law, heavily influencing a jury by presupposing which people have been wronged.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
More problematic, considering current events, the story line inadvertently serves as a cautionary tale for filmmakers, underscoring the inherent challenges of presupposing a ripped-from-the-headlines timeliness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2017
“As you say, an interesting topic of speculation, and one you’re like to find the answer of shortly, presupposing that you suffer the usual fate of captured spies.”
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
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