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supposed to
Intended to; also, believed to, expected to. For example, This pill is supposed to relieve your pain , or You're supposed to be my partner . [Early 1300s]
Required to, as in He is supposed to call home . [Mid-1800s]
not supposed to . Not permitted to, as in You're not supposed to smoke in here .
Example Sentences
Much of the factory was supposed to be as sterile as an operating room.
“We’re supposed to have the best medicine in the world,” said Joe DeMayo, a kidney transplant patient in Philadelphia who took an immunosuppression medication made by Intas until December 2023, unaware that a month earlier the FDA had excused the drug from an import ban.
When patents expire, generic drug companies rush in to make their own versions, which are supposed to be equivalent to the brand.
It was supposed to be a "special dad and lad night".
The popular video sharing app was supposed to be banned in the US after its Chinese owner, ByteDance, refused to sell it to a US buyer by a January deadline.
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