presumption

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She wrought real reputational harms and wrecked the presumption of regularity to the point where judges are now just saying: I just assume you lie all the time.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

Whether Reece James, John Stones and Tino Livramento are fit enough to play every four days is a big presumption, of course.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Cannon asserted that doing so here would violate “the presumption of innocence held sacrosanct in our constitutional order,” but that is nonsense.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

A presumption that there is an undercurrent of simmering rage in day-to-day life has taken hold in ways that might have startled past generations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

For nearly a decade, Jefferson and Washington had corresponded about making navigation improvements in the Potomac on the presumption that it afforded a direct link between the vast American interior and the Chesapeake Bay.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis