take for granted

Example Sentences

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What investors today take for granted — buying or selling a basket of thousands of stocks with a single click of a mouse while incurring no transaction cost — was impossible.

From MarketWatch

But that advice assumes the public trusts that prices will come back down, and after five years of above-target inflation, that trust is harder to take for granted.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it is also true that the popularity of the central elements of the reset that the party has been pursuing up to now cannot be taken for granted.

From BBC

From then on it seemed taken for granted that Karel and I would go walking each day.

From Literature

After five years of above-target inflation and a series of shocks that keep reminding consumers of rising prices, that trust is harder to take for granted.

From The Wall Street Journal