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  • noun Plural form of suspicion.

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Examples

  • Peters surprised all by asking for another public hearing and made the unusual move of asking for representatives of the Serious Fraud Office, which is also investigating what it calls suspicions of "serious and complex fraud" involving other donations, to be present, Radio New Zealand said.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2008

  • The apparent fecklessness that arouses Nic's suspicions is precisely the openness and sense of freedom that attracts Jules.

    The Kids Are All Right – review Philip French 2010

  • Interior Minister Besir Atalay, speaking to Turkish journalists on a visit to China, said "certain suspicions, certain evidence" indicated who was behind the attack, but said the government would not rush to announce its theories.

    Istanbul Explosion Leaves 32 Wounded AP 2010

  • "There are a lot of long-term suspicions about the motivations of suburbanites -- and that means white people -- when it comes to the city's assets," said Mr. Hyde, who teaches a class on the history of Michigan.

    Fight Erupts Over Detroit Center 2009

  • If it does what I hope it does, then I can lay certain suspicions to rest.

    Archive 2003-04-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • If it does what I hope it does, then I can lay certain suspicions to rest.

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • It was for this that he worked so long with Jan Hofmeyr, leader of the Cape Dutch, and earned so many unfair suspicions from the short-sighted politicians of Cape Town.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • Thornton Lyne had set down not only his experiences, but his daily happenings, his thoughts, poetical and otherwise, and had stated very exactly and in libellous terms his suspicions of his manager.

    The Daffodil Mystery Edgar Wallace 1903

  • "In the first place, I would like to know what it was that diverted your suspicions from the unfortunate Sisters?"

    The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective 1894

  • She had had her suspicions from the first, when Mr. Ralph Landsell had come to Riggan with his father who was one of the mining company.

    That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

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