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presume

verb as in dare; take the liberty

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The next month she married the man who, it is safe to presume, was her final husband.

But it is a mistake to presume that because these voters are Obama loyalists they are Democratic Party loyalists.

I presume most Republicans will be clever enough to mute impeachment talk before November.

Somebody (a monk, I presume) has put a dummy dressed in a guard's uniform inside.

How far that may be is unclear, though we can only presume that it would involve jail time for those tracked down.

I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

I presume this path does not extend many miles without meeting impediments.

I presume there will be more middling and half middling yields within twenty miles of Paris than in all Belgium.

That Lannes would have emerged superior to these trials his previous career affords strong reason to presume.

I presume you know that Maria Theresa was a first-rate soldier; or, at least, she had the happy art of finding them.

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On this page you'll find 103 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to presume, such as: assume, count on, guess, infer, pretend, and suppose.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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