presume

“I presume these are sophisticated investors taking a profit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

“When first responders arrived, there were two people hanging from the apartment window and three on the ground, one of which I presume was Mr. Jackson,” White said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

"People are using them proactively and on the A9 when someone sees a diversion, they automatically presume it is because something has happened," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Your cousin, I presume, has some Social Security, however modest.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

‘I presume you can pinpoint it on the map?’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

It presumes states already have adequate initial-attack capacity of their own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

One presumes he’s smart enough not to take anything for granted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Hopefully, it’s not as bad as that worst-case scenario presumes.

From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026

I was trained in that tradition—you find a way, you find a pathway, and all of that presumes the legitimacy of the framework.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2025

“So the aristocrat presumes to lecture us about equality,” he said.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

That focus on quarterback protection helped Eck weather a crisis before New Mexico’s season even began, when presumed starter Jack Layne was ruled out for the year with an injury to his throwing elbow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Monaco introduced an offence of presumed money laundering to facilitate the prosecution of cases involving suspicious funds.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The balance minimum was selected because these would be people who weren’t cashed out automatically for having a low balance, and would be presumed to have some engagement with their accounts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

A competent man shouldn’t be presumed incompetent because a stranger on the internet received three bags of parsley.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

Greenspan, who retired just before disaster struck, acknowledged to Congress in late 2008 that he had "made a mistake" in presuming companies were best positioned to protect themselves and their shareholders without government oversight.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Videos captured people murmuring confusedly, presuming technical difficulties, before the truth dawned on the crowd that pyrotechnics would not be forthcoming.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026

Rasmussen said he left the meeting with Vance and Rubio presuming the Trump administration understood the island wouldn’t become part of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

When in doubt, take your item to a reputable expert or dealer: You never want to make the mistake of presuming something isn’t silver and treating it as such.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

Accounting for Air Days and presuming 90 kilometers of travel per sol, I should arrive on Sol 498.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir