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

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

It is unclear exactly how the sculpture came to be in the Cotswolds, but the family presume it was bought at auction by an ancestor in the mid 1900s.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

It’s really hard to presume anything, one of the reasons that makes it a riveting watch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

“You presume to tell me how to run my kingdom?”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

She’s scheduled to play doubles with her sister Venus in Cincinnati, and if that goes well, one presumes we’ll see them pair again in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

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

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

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

Now, however, Hall’s wife back in Christchurch, Jan Arnold, would have to do the unthinkable: call McPherson back to inform her there had been a horrible mistake—that Andy was in fact missing and presumed dead.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

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

“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