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assume
verb as in believe, take for granted
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accept, conclude, consider, estimate, expect, guess, infer, presume, speculate, suspect, think, understand
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ascertain, conjecture, deduce, deem, divine, fancy, find, gather, hypothesize, imagine, judge, posit, postulate, predicate, presuppose, suppose, surmise, theorize
Weak matches
be afraid, be inclined to think, count upon, fall for, get the idea, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion
verb as in take, undertake
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verb as in pretend
verb as in adopt, acquire
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annex, appropriate, arrogate, borrow, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, grab, hijack, liberate, preempt, seize, snatch, swipe, usurp
Weak matches
clap hands on, get fingers on, get hands on, glom onto, grab hold of, kipe, moonlight requisition
Example Sentences
Having the world’s reserve currency, however, isn’t the unbreakable shield many assume.
After one of her make-up products "went viral" on social media, people assumed Zoe Trigwell was an overnight success and a millionaire.
It is, in a modest and practical way, an expression of the biblical injunction to honor one’s parents—not by grand gestures, but by assuming a few of the small responsibilities they habitually postpone.
At first she assumed it was from workers outside.
McGarragle says that taking these numbers at face value, and assuming Algoma can capture 25% of the upside—which is roughly its percentage of Canadian capacity—implies solid upside potential to next year’s estimates.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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