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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
Unsurprisingly adolescence starts around the onset of puberty, but this is the latest evidence suggesting it ends much later than we assumed.
"It became pretty clear to me the board was not taking stuff as seriously as I hoped and assumed it would."
“Over the past decade and even up to a year or two ago, we assumed others could catch up quickly,” Wertheimer said.
Westinghouse estimates an “overnight cost” of roughly $10 billion per reactor—a sum that omits financing charges and assumes the plants could theoretically be built overnight.
When we heard England were considering sending some players to Canberra for the Lions game, we assumed it would be those in need of practice.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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