presume
verb (used with object)
to take for granted, assume, or suppose.
am presuming
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present progressiveof presume (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am presuming, too, that the manspreading was off the scale and that everybody kept their knees away from Damian Green.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2019
I am presuming you still live at home and you mean leave home, rather than leave your family completely?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2018
Lakeshore Entertainment handled the $13 million budget, so I am presuming that LGF is only on the hook for distribution and advertising costs.
From Forbes ● Jul. 26, 2015
I am presuming that the cause of his fears came to him across the moor.
From The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"I am presuming that you are the Mr. Cecil Mordaunt Rivington whose engagement to Miss Ernestine Cardwell was announced in this morning's paper," he said, speaking quickly but very distinctly.
From The Swindler and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
