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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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
But "there were no opportunities to excavate" the suspected sites, he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
CVS entered an agreement with the DEA requiring it to establish a hotline to report suspected illegal dispensing of controlled substances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
But once he suspected they were stolen property, he’d brought them in immediately.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
