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presumptive

adjective as in assumptive

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Left tackle Elijah Paige said Thursday that he has seen a major change in Maiava since he entered the offseason as the presumptive starter.

Mamdani’s meteoric rise to becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, an office that is both local and national, has made him many enemies in the media.

From Salon

By the time Vice President Kamala Harris was playing it at her first rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee in Atlanta, every sporting event in America was playing that song.

People who want to fight Trump will also have to fight this inertia — even though many of the party’s presumptive presidential candidates are saying, no, no, I'm going to come out swinging.

From Salon

The South Darfur airport in Nyala, the presumptive capital and military base of the Rapid Support Forces, has been repeatedly bombed by the SAF, which destroyed an aircraft there earlier this month.

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