Example Sentences

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“People will presume whatever they want to presume.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021

However, those prone to believing in patterns and seeding history will presume it means the Bucks have a 66.7 percent of being doomed.

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2020

When I come in, all the waiters say hello, and often the actors will presume that they know me and jump up to say hello.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2016

If the state keeps control of all the prisons for a year, Henderson said he will presume that health care meets constitutional standards and that he should consider ending the receivership.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2015

They twinkled and sparkled with an incessant mischief, and they darted such insolent glances right and left as seemed to say, "Is there any one present who will presume to contradict me?"

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James