assumed

His friends and family members wanted to be around him, which they assumed meant around baseball.

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans.

“So when he opened the door and these agents are there, they just assumed he was an American citizen.”

In the days after Kirk’s killing, his wife Erika has assumed his mantle.

It is something else: call it self-ownership, where destiny is assumed as a personal responsibility.