suspect
verb (used with object)
to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof.
suspected
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past participleof suspect.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof suspect.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
suspectverb (used with object)to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof.
Example Sentences
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Investors cited concerns about Indonesian market dysfunction, suspected coordinated trading and a lack of meaningful enforcement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Astronomers have long suspected that black holes operate according to the same underlying physical laws regardless of their mass.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
He suspected they’d be neither—his field had been using machine translation since the 1950s.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The UN says another 201,000 people have been displaced and that there has been an alarming surge in suspected cholera cases.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
A few people, over the years, had suspected that the girl was rare in some way.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
