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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of presuppose.

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Examples

  • The title presupposes that the mother has already accepted the fact that her child's hearing is not perfect, and, for the sake of the child, it is to be hoped that this knowledge came to her very promptly after the occurrence of the deafness.

    What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know John Dutton Wright 1909

  • The term presupposes opposition to the classic style, to rhetorical deduction, and to measured periods, all of which were unknown in the time of the Renaissance, and first imported in that of the French Revolution.

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • But they made a workmanlike thriller that works as an (unconscious?) auto-critique of mainstreamed Internet-age hedonism-the title presupposes the universal saturation of online schoolyard smuttiness, the film positing a world where nobody thinks twice when the camcorder comes out at the sex party.

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • Of course, all of the talk of a third term presupposes smooth sailing for Argentina's fast-growing economy.

    Kirchner's 'Eternal' Issue Matt Moffett 2011

  • The phrase presupposes that evolution is an entity with its own desires - its own concerns.

    Planet Atheism Alonzo Fyfe 2010

  • The phrase presupposes that evolution is an entity with its own desires - its own concerns.

    Planet Atheism Alonzo Fyfe 2010

  • The phrase presupposes that evolution is an entity with its own desires - its own concerns.

    Planet Atheism Alonzo Fyfe 2010

  • The phrase presupposes that evolution is an entity with its own desires - its own concerns.

    Planet Atheism Alonzo Fyfe 2010

  • This single phrase presupposes that such a school exists, i.e.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Janice Hardy 2010

  • This single phrase presupposes that such a school exists, i.e.

    World-Building Week: Showing it Off Janice Hardy 2010

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