take for granted
Example Sentences
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“I don’t take for granted that it would have been really easy to write a show where her character never blossomed in that way.”
From Los Angeles Times
Information their clients take for granted in public markets, including what investments perform best or the makeup of common indexes, can be guarded as closely as state secrets.
But investors are now worried the incoming torrent of data could swing markets and upend bets on a December interest-rate cut that they had once taken for granted.
"The diagnosis remains the worst part of our life.Suddenly everything we took for granted was 10-20 times harder," he says.
From BBC
The Senegalese winger's talent is taken for granted now, but he had to work hard to prove himself before landing a spot in a Premier League starting line-up.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
