take for granted
Example Sentences
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He got a nice ovation from the Philadelphia crowd, which he knew better than to take for granted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
There are a lot of narratives about AI that people take for granted, including “AI will take our jobs” or “someday AI will be smarter than humans,” or even that AI literally means “artificial intelligence.”
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Hockney was "normalising same-sex relationships... that we take for granted", Bilton suggests, adding the artist showed that gay people "are just normal people... doing normal stuff, looking at our partners and thinking: 'oh, you're beautiful'".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
My job as a historian, regardless of the topic, is to denaturalize what we take for granted.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
“We’ll just take for granted that Arthur will be here.”
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
