- present participle of suspect.
Example Sentences
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It is a notifiable disease so anyone suspecting their animals may have it must report it to to a vet, local divisional veterinary office or to Daera directly.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
This policy, she explains, “tramples the constitutional requirement that officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.”
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025
This was Stephanie Lazarus, a 25-year-old patrol officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, and in retrospect, the grounds for suspecting her seem obvious.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
Their defense means the two will have to enter into some form of close bond long enough for the police to stop suspecting Jérémie.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2025
I asked once, suddenly suspecting that he had lost our joint seventy-five cents during the night.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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