presume
Example Sentences
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Her tone in “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction” is elegiac, as though smartphones have killed off the craft; yet it’s also a manifesto of sorts, and a declaration of her own aesthetics.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025
Presume that Harvick won't get tagged with a penalty for causing a caution after bouncing into Trevor Bayne's car.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2015
Presume intense interest in Harper Lee is primarily if not solely because of school-assigned readings & millions of copies sold.
From Time • Jul. 14, 2015
Presume it wasn't the three minutes before half-time?
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2010
Oh, no, I will say with the poet— "Let not this weak unknowing hand, Presume thy bolts to throw, Or deal damnation round the land, On all I judge thy foe."
From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Rigby, Nicholas
Vocabulary lists containing presume
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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