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have been presuming
  • present perfect progressive of presume.

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Naturally there followed, even with the faint suspicions so far engendered, the question as to what the possible object for the crime could have been, presuming either man had been involved.

From The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Steele, Chester K.

I have been presuming on our relationship to be as provoking as I could, because—honestly—I thought that you might have trusted me a little more.

From A True Friend A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

He knew that well, said Uli; but that would have been presuming, and the distance was too great beside, for they were going back today; he had his hands full now.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various