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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
presume .
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Examples
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'The omission of the title presumes you a criminal.'
The Philanderers 1906
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What this discussion of the hijab presumes is choice: In the United States, women can escape demands to cover themselves or demands not to, fashioning a new set of meanings for an ancient practice.
Paul O'Donnell: Does My Religion Make Me Look Fat? The Connection Between Piety and Body Image Paul O'Donnell 2010
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What this discussion of the hijab presumes is choice: In the United States, women can escape demands to cover themselves or demands not to, fashioning a new set of meanings for an ancient practice.
Paul O'Donnell: Does My Religion Make Me Look Fat? The Connection Between Piety and Body Image Paul O 2010
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What this discussion of the hijab presumes is choice: In the United States, women can escape demands to cover themselves or demands not to, fashioning a new set of meanings for an ancient practice.
Paul O'Donnell: Does My Religion Make Me Look Fat? The Connection Between Piety and Body Image Paul O'Donnell 2010
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The commercials they keep running for this, with what one presumes is what they think are the best bits, make me want to change the channel.
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The only reason the Outpost would accept such ads, she presumes, is "because the editor and publisher must to some extent support their agendas."
Out, Outpost David 2006
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The only reason the Outpost would accept such ads, she presumes, is "because the editor and publisher must to some extent support their agendas."
Archive 2006-05-01 David 2006
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Behind him, one presumes, is the bomb crater resulting from the Israeli air strike, which may be the reason why this location has been chosen for the shot.
Part 4 - Act 2: The Red Cross workers Richard 2006
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The goal of Al Q, one presumes, is to disrupt and destabilize Western society, or something like that.
Think Progress » Administration’s Secret Prison System Violates Law 2005
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If that's the kind of thing she "presumes" -- about people with whom she has something in common, too, worse luck for us -- then I "presume" that the rest of her article is a farrago of half-baked nonsense pulled from the nether regions of a goat.
Archive 2008-06-01 Doctor Science 2008
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