suppose
verb (used with object)
to assume (something) for the sake of argument, as part of a proposition or theory, a problem set to be solved as an exercise, etc..
has supposed
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present perfectof suppose (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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One doesn’t have to exclude the other, she says, even if traditional rock criticism has supposed that market success must come at the expense of that vague and vaunted quality known as “authenticity.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021
Teammate Jose Rojas, the rider who has supposed to support Quintana in case he had a problem, fell in a pileup moments before.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2018
Sartre, in effect, has made the same mistake the Puritans did: he has supposed that human life and social history can be satisfactorily explained in terms of dogma eat dogma.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a historian has supposed that the Bryan notions of "cheap money" vanished from the national scene in the bitter election of 1896.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he does this, the actual facts of the case may, on reflection, prove far less serious than the impulsive and diseased mind has supposed.
From Success (Second Edition) by Max Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook
