presume
verb (used with object)
to take for granted, assume, or suppose.
were presuming
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past progressiveof presume.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He added that journalists were "presuming I had something I didn't have", but said "I had something far more serious."
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
"It would look as though I were presuming on a t-trifling service rendered, and--oh, I can't say it; I want to, but I can't."
From The Green Mouse by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"I must say that as a boy you were presuming enough."
From Torchy, Private Sec. by F. Foster Lincoln
Each one of them presuming that that one was that one were not presuming all the time that they were presuming often.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
They were somewhat cleaner, a trifle better clad, and somewhat changed in their general aspect, for here they were presuming themselves to be “poor but honest” working people, like their neighbors.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
