presume
verb (used with object)
to take for granted, assume, or suppose.
are presuming
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present progressiveof presume.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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That assumption is abandonment; we are presuming she is off to the wilderness.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2017
The things that are the most historically accurate, people are presuming those also to not be true because it’s such a surreal chapter of American history.
From MSNBC ● Apr. 22, 2016
But people are actually taking it very seriously, and people are presuming it’s fully real, which is interesting.
From The Verge ● Apr. 21, 2016
You are presuming that he cannot be a strong person.”
From New York Times ● May 4, 2011
It is a great law of Universal Progress; and in lifting our hands against it, we are presuming to measure arms with a Power which will be sure to overwhelm us with confusion and defeat.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
