presume
verb (used with object)
to take for granted, assume, or suppose.
had presumed
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past perfectof presume.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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I had presumed that the French sommelier’s response was based on arrogance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
However, Victim A’s sister, who at one stage during his captivity had presumed her brother was dead, said he never received “adequate compensation”, being awarded just £12,428 by the court.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2024
Growing up watching Sinéad on TV and hearing that force of nature of a voice, I had presumed she would be like that in person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
It was a knack that I had presumed would come in handy in the event my hearing ever got really, really bad.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2019
Galton may have derided the “microscope” of experimental geneticists, but the tool was far more powerful than Galton had presumed, for it could penetrate the outer shell of heredity into the mechanism itself.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
