daresay

[ dair-sey ]

/ ˈdɛərˈseɪ /

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verb (used with or without object)

to venture to say (something); assume (something) as probable (used only in present sing. 1st person): I daresay we will soon finish.

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Origin of daresay

1250–1300; Middle English dar sayen I dare to say

In defiance, I held my ticket above my head, which triggered the spitting and chants of “How Dare You!”
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Despite the 21 years I did in prison for a drug conviction, I am assimilating back into mainstream or, dare I say, white America.
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And more I cannot explain/but you, from what I did not say/will infer what I do not say.
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We feel their strangeness when we read their words—they lived on a plane where few dare to tread.
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While it may not leave you with many profound truths, I dare you not to fall in love.
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None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
I never dare venture over except as the guest of some more fortunate friend.
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I do not know—I do not dare to believe—that I shall live to hear that key grating in the lock.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
She would not dare to choose, and begged that Mademoiselle Reisz would please herself in her selections.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
For accurate work the best instruments are the von Fleischl-Miescher and the Dare.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

dare say

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