suspected

Examples of suspecting

suspecting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Nineteenth-century critics prescribe dainty strategies to represent the body in extremis, as if suspecting something of the dangers of looking upon it.
I managed to graduate without suspecting the existence of a scientific discipline of economics.
Suspecting that she was pregnant only after her second missed period, she did not discuss the situation with anybody until 21 weeks gestation.
However, many narrators wrote only reluctantly, suspecting that their life stories were too mundane to be of any interest to anybody.
I am not alone in suspecting a very particular political agenda.
The principal correlate of delay in suspecting pregnancy in both groups was a belief that missed periods were due to some cause other than pregnancy.
There are two basic reasons for suspecting that bilinguals' metalinguistic abilities might relate to their theory of mind abilities.
Patients with high lie scores were late in suspecting their pregnancies.
As with attitude uncertainty, there are grounds for suspecting that engaging in political conversation may enhance individuals' sense of political efficacy.
There is no reason for suspecting that the structure on the average is not symmetric with respect to the plane of symmetry (of the spark).
It turns out that he should start suspecting something is wrong after 8 heads are tossed in a row, because 0.99r0.58<0.01r0.5.
Theories of media influence, however, offer grounds for suspecting pronounced effects.
He had passed through his artistic career without suspecting that he was a colour vision defective or any of his fellow students suspecting it.
Differential bias may be introduced if doctors working in areas with low leptospirosis incidence have a higher threshold for suspecting and investigating cases of leptospirosis.
There was also empirical support for suspecting a curvilinear shape of change with the most marked change occurring between the first and second reading.
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