presumptuous
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“It would have been highly presumptuous for me just to make a rash decision about what we were going to do without listening,” he said of the compact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Jonathan Paquin, a political science professor at Canada's Universite Laval, told AFP: "The American administration was undoubtedly presumptuous in believing it held all the cards."
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
You can offer to send a Calendly link but sending one out in the first outreach is a bit presumptuous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Nearly two hours are spent jumping between concurrent storylines, and had Koepp’s screenplay allotted all 120 of those minutes to the film’s stars, “Rebirth” might actually feel worthy of its presumptuous title.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025
As though it might be another, as though a presumptuous neighbor or a young ghost with bad skin might be there instead.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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