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  • verb Present participle of presuppose.

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Examples

  • DELONG: What, that is, your presupposing a world in which Michael Leach never shows up at the kind of Seminole County board of elections.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Vote: Seminole County Case Continues - December 6, 2000 2000

  • It is a point that has been made before but still hasn't been internalized; there is no catalyst for terror, no excuse, cause, justification or explanation and it is time that members of the press stopped acting as useful fools in delivering a 'little help' to its protagonists by presupposing that there is.

    Dovid Efune: 'A Little Help' for Terror Dovid Efune 2011

  • It is a book whose history, whose evolution, whose “writing” and meaning, we “read” according to the different approaches of the sciences, while all the time presupposing the foundational presence of the author who has wished to reveal himself therein.

    ID/Evolution 2009

  • That said, now here we go into presupposing, maybe some other country, not necessarily Mexico or Central America will follow but then again, who knows who will?

    US policy and Mexico's war on drugs 2009

  • The press release waxes on about the features, implicitly presupposing that more must be better:

    Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse | FactoryCity 2009

  • In the movie, the press not only swallow whatever they are fed, but also serve as useful fools in furthering the false narrative by jumping the gun, presupposing and making false assumptions.

    Dovid Efune: 'A Little Help' for Terror Dovid Efune 2011

  • In the movie, the press not only swallow whatever they are fed, but also serve as useful fools in furthering the false narrative by jumping the gun, presupposing and making false assumptions.

    Dovid Efune: 'A Little Help' for Terror Dovid Efune 2011

  • That said, now here we go into presupposing, maybe some other country, not necessarily Mexico or Central America will follow but then again, who knows who will?

    US policy and Mexico's war on drugs 2009

  • It is a point that has been made before but still hasn't been internalized; there is no catalyst for terror, no excuse, cause, justification or explanation and it is time that members of the press stopped acting as useful fools in delivering a 'little help' to its protagonists by presupposing that there is.

    Dovid Efune: 'A Little Help' for Terror Dovid Efune 2011

  • That said, now here we go into presupposing, maybe some other country, not necessarily Mexico or Central America will follow but then again, who knows who will?

    US policy and Mexico's war on drugs 2009

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