had presumed
- past perfect of presume.
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
Ms Jack said she had presumed the control zone would cover the whole of Niddrie and not just part of it.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
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
Scientists had presumed there was a direct correlation between those emissions and NOx levels in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 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
