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I wouldn’t presume — based on the script and seeing the first episode — I wouldn’t presume to get inside the head of that character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“I presume these are sophisticated investors taking a profit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

“When first responders arrived, there were two people hanging from the apartment window and three on the ground, one of which I presume was Mr. Jackson,” White said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Don’t presume to know what she wants or what she would be comfortable giving financially.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Lily swings her door shut and heads off to her greenhouse, to simmer, I presume.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

One presumes he’s smart enough not to take anything for granted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Hopefully, it’s not as bad as that worst-case scenario presumes.

From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026

That she presumes such ineptitude and desperation among her legions of users does not bode well.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

Iran’s central bank, one presumes, injected foreign currency into the black market to prop up the rial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

“So the aristocrat presumes to lecture us about equality,” he said.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Monaco introduced an offence of presumed money laundering to facilitate the prosecution of cases involving suspicious funds.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The balance minimum was selected because these would be people who weren’t cashed out automatically for having a low balance, and would be presumed to have some engagement with their accounts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

A competent man shouldn’t be presumed incompetent because a stranger on the internet received three bags of parsley.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

A fiduciary that objectively and thoroughly analyzes these factors is presumed to have made reasonable judgments and gets significant deference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

I couldn’t think of anything else to say, and he didn’t speak — biding his time, I presumed — so it was a quiet walk to the cafeteria.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Greenspan, who retired just before disaster struck, acknowledged to Congress in late 2008 that he had "made a mistake" in presuming companies were best positioned to protect themselves and their shareholders without government oversight.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Their case had been scuppered by the so-called "30 second rule", a false conclusion adopted by the court presuming that every person who was killed in the disaster had been unconscious within 30 seconds.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

Videos captured people murmuring confusedly, presuming technical difficulties, before the truth dawned on the crowd that pyrotechnics would not be forthcoming.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026

And that’s presuming you do make it to the Taj Mahal.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

Satin was all grace, dancing with three serving girls in turn but never presuming to approach a highborn lady.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin