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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

I presume these are sophisticated investors taking a profit.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

"I presume he was in shock," he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

“That said, do not presume to change a word of what I say. If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Unified budget presumes those costs will go down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026

That she presumes such ineptitude and desperation among her legions of users does not bode well.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

Iran’s central bank, one presumes, injected foreign currency into the black market to prop up the rial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

In the same sense that our judicial system presumes us to be innocent until proved guilty, a medical-care system may work best if it starts with the presumption that most people are healthy.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

A fiduciary that objectively and thoroughly analyzes these factors is presumed to have made reasonable judgments and gets significant deference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

During a Thursday appearance at the Bloomberg News Screentime media conference in Hollywood, Bloys declined to discuss his presumed new role.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

This move is reliant on the presumed authenticity of these new spaces.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

At first she was simply intrigued by the basic things she didn’t know, and the many things she’d wrongly presumed.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

That’s presuming the U.S. team — a 60-1 longshot — does the improbable and wins the final.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 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

Baird was thinking about the question of whether Reggie— presuming he was, in fact texting—should have known his behavior was reckless.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel