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presume

[pri-zoom] / prɪˈzum /




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What’s more, you can, I presume, continue working until you are 65 and qualify for Medicare.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

"What I love about One Piece, I presume that people pick up on similar things, is that the messages of the story are so universal," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

Right, exactly, and then we start seeing forces moving into the region in greater numbers for what you would presume to be a major strike.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

But the current mood of investors seems to be to presume that software credits could be impaired until their performance can demonstrate otherwise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram’s.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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