presumed
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Rather than relying only on the size, anatomy or presumed hunting abilities of extinct animals, researchers can use the marks left on bones to identify signs of actual feeding or attacks.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Authorities are attempting to make contact with 14 people whom they have failed to reach by cell phone but are not yet presumed missing, Sheriff John Nowels told a press conference Monday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Anyone mentioned anywhere following the blast is presumed to have survived it, and perhaps lived through it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The department is continuing to investigate what caused the boat to capsize, and to search for the two passengers who remain missing and are presumed dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
When he was not working, he wrote postcards, scores of them, perhaps hundreds, to the most powerful men in the city, in a voice that presumed he was their equal in social stature.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
