take for granted
Example Sentences
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“I definitely do feel it’s not something I take for granted to be in these rooms and to know that my voice matters,” Howe said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
You’ve said that part of what you’re doing in the class is denaturalizing what we take for granted.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
I like this bit because it shows you that there is always something new that science can discover, and all the facts that you take for granted can be completely wrong.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
