presume

I wouldn’t presume — based on the script and seeing the first episode — I wouldn’t presume to get inside the head of that character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

People in nearby villages said U.S. servicemen hadn’t been seen for the past week, leading the locals to presume the men were being kept on base for security reasons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Don’t presume to know what she wants or what she would be comfortable giving financially.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

"The sites we've currently explored are in south-west Ireland, but it's illogical to presume that early humans just bypassed Wexford, Waterford and Cork, and ploughed on west," said Nash.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

“There are engineers and there are engineers. I wouldn’t presume to predict. But I should tell you. A favor, believe me. Nothing you don’t realize yourself.”

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Unified budget presumes those costs will go down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

It’s paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

One of the ships, the Alfa Watan, sank and all 10 crew, including nine Syrians, are presumed dead.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The engineer title evokes a sense of precision, control and certainty of outcomes that marketing for decades has been presumed to lack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Three were pulled from the water; one remains missing and is presumed dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

As the search continued for the 86 people presumed missing, coast guard, military personnel and local responders were working to tamp down the thick smoke billowing from the ferry.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

He sat facing the door and the windows, a book in his hands, a Bible I presumed.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

By the end of this year, Anthropic could owe xAI as much as $10 billion, or more than xAI has generated since it was formed, presuming a May payment is included.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

Their case had been scuppered by the so-called "30 second rule", a false conclusion adopted by the court presuming that every person who was killed in the disaster had been unconscious within 30 seconds.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 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

“Of course, courage only counts when you can count. I’m presuming the rest of you can count, and will be screwing your courage to the sticking place any minute now.”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins