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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

From the dictionary;

Etymology

Verb

by shortening & alteration from suspect

1930s: abbreviation of suspect, suspicion.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago

Those appear to be examples that were made of recently. That's a pretty bad dictionary cuz it doesn't actually say when the examples are from.