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  • verb Present participle of suspect.

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Examples

  • And the ‘seven’ – just amazing – Am I wrong in suspecting that their struggles with the hating-loving-respecting-accepting Elena have just begun?

    Release Celebrations!! Nalini Singh 2010

  • Do you find that closely-knit towns tend to band together after a momentous event, however tragic, or, do you think Leigh is right in suspecting the entire town is whispering about her and her family behind her back?

    A Conversation with Laura Moriarty author of The Rest of Her Life 2010

  • For one thing, both the ranking Democrat and Republican signed the letter, suggesting there is bipartisan sentiment in suspecting ... oh, what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to deceive.

    Today, we're not talking about ... that guy 2008

  • Am I alone in suspecting that one serious consideration behind the decision to keep Stephen Colbert off the South Carolina Democratic primary ballot was that he might well win it?

    Thwarting the Will of the People 2007

  • He is right in suspecting the “White City” to be imaginary, but its sea has no apparent connection with the Caspian.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I certainly don't need any help in suspecting and distrusting the government.

    Must See Movie 2006

  • I certainly don't need any help in suspecting and distrusting the government.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • If the sequence was successful guessed, we would be reasonable in suspecting the guessing process was not in fact random.

    A Nagging Question about MN 2005

  • From the fact that no political party is opposing them, but that all are more or less clustering around them, I think we are justified in suspecting that the latter theory is the one to which we should hold.

    Stock-Taking for the Postwar 1944

  • (Hist. des Empereurs, tom.v. p. 726) in suspecting the royal pedigree, which remained a secret till the promotion of Theodosius.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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