assumed

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When he said a few days later that he would accept them, but only if he won, most people assumed he was joking.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

Sister Rita grew up in the Philippines, where she studied business in college and assumed she’d have a normal career and get married.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

At this point, they had assumed Hillary Dawa was dead.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

And higher-than-expected inflation has been pushing cost-of-living payments out faster than projections assumed.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

“We had always assumed that they sold the triple-A CDOs to, like, the Korean Farmers Corporation. The way they were all blowing up implied they hadn’t. They’d kept it themselves.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis