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verb
To regard in an appraising way
Synonyms: thinking, reputing, believing
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verb
To oblige to do or not do by force of authority, propriety, or custom
Synonyms: requiring, expecting
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verb
Express a supposition
Synonyms: surmising, saying, speculating, inferring, guessing, conjecturing
Antonyms: measuring, knowing, calculating
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verb
To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Synonyms: thinking, assuming, reckoning, guessing, postulating, theorizing, speculating, opining, deeming, imagining, presuming, hypothecating, believing, understanding, surmising, suspecting, conjecturing, hypothesizing, judging, presupposing, implying, expecting, divining, considering, premising, concluding, conceiving, positing, allowing
Antonyms: knowing, disbelieving
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verb
Take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand
Synonyms: presupposing
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verb
Require as a necessary antecedent or precondition
Synonyms: presupposing
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Synonyms: if, in case that, in these circumstances, under these conditions, let us suppose, allowing that, granting that, with the supposition that, taking for granted that