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 • Mar. 23, 2026
She added the charity campaign was encouraging people to get together to create similar pads, because many women globally "can't go to the store and get the branded products that sometimes we take for granted".
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
“I like that Lyndon is using materials that are a part of our everyday lives that we take for granted and we discard,” Jackson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
Ms. Bauer reminds us not to take for granted a world where we understand the biology of infectious disease and live free of the stalking horrors that prevailed until yesterday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
A lot of what stinks about not having arms are little things—things most people take for granted because they have arms.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
