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

It was nine months before he was able to call his family in Senegal who had presumed he was dead.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2022

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

When the coaching staff was kept intact, he had presumed that it had nothing to do with tarnishing the program.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2016

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