Sample Sentences for
presume
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presume as in:  presumption of innocence

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I presumed she was an expert since she spoke so confidently.
presumed = assumed
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    The police's presumption of guilt against the suspect caused them to overlook important evidence.
    presumption = assumption
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    The presumption of innocence does no prevent holding a defendant thought to be a danger to society.
    presumption = the legal assumption that something is true unless proved otherwise
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    I presume they will perform an autopsy.  (source)
    presume = assume
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    At least we presume so.  (source)
    presume = believe
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    Besides, the shovels were locked up at night, presumably so they couldn't be used as weapons.  (source)
    presumably = probably
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ably" is a combination of the suffixes "-able" and "-ly". It means in a manner that is capable of being. This is the same pattern you see in words like agreeably, favorably, and comfortably.
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    I think Mother has presumed him dead for a long time already.  (source)
    presumed = thought of something as true or likely, even though it was not known with certainty
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    He could not help regarding my exclamation as a presumption of my guilt and said in rather a severe tone, "I should have thought, young man, that the presence of your father would have been welcome instead of inspiring such violent repugnance."  (source)
    presumption = something thought of as true
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    ...presuming that all our conjectures are correct --  (source)
    presuming = assuming
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    Inside the hotel itself, Hiro presumes furious activity is going on.†  (source)
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    Presumptions of guilt, poverty, racial bias, and a host of other social, structural, and political dynamics have created a system that is defined by error, a system in which thousands of innocent people now suffer in prison.†  (source)
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    Presumable this is how it is.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in presumable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "E", the "E" is often dropped as in lovable and believable.
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    One was so beside himself at the thought of shaking hands (I presume he still had one) with the Fuhrer that he could barely say a word.  (source)
    presume = assume
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    They're only looking at the husband, presumably because they don't know about the boyfriend.  (source)
    presumably = probably
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presumptuous as in:  she is presumptuous

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    She does not like presumptuous employees.
    presumptuous = exercising unearned privileges
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    The Ministry wouldn't presume to trouble you, sir, surely?  (source)
    presume = exercise privileges to which one is not entitled
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    "Do not presume to tell me what it means!" the mayor cried.  (source)
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    Of course, I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech.  (source)
    presumptuous = exercising social privileges to which one is not entitled
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    Since there are many more eggs elsewhere—I shall not name the place—I hope you do not believe that I have acted presumptuously or that I have been overly prejudiced in favor of my own race.†  (source)
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    "It is not our custom to fight for our gods," said one of them. "Let us not presume to do so now."  (source)
    presume = be so bold as
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    Did any one indeed exist, except I, the creator, who would believe, unless his senses convinced him, in the existence of the living monument of presumption and rash ignorance which I had let loose upon the world?  (source)
    presumption = assumption of a privilege to which one is not entitled
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. When a word ends in "me", a "p" is often added as in assume to assumption, consume to consumption and resume to resumption.
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    No one on the island had ever presumed to stare like that at Sir Francis Tyler's granddaughter.  (source)
    presumed = acted so boldly as
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    It shows an overhaste-indeed, a presumptuousness, which we can but deplore.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses.  (source)
    presumes = exercises privileges to which one is not entitled
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    In this world the penalty is less equal than could be wished; but without presuming to look forward to a juster appointment hereafter, we may fairly consider a man of sense, like Henry Crawford, to be providing for himself no small portion of vexation and regret:  (source)
    presuming = exercising a privilege to which one is not entitled
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    A Crime which we know to be so, is greater than the same Crime proceeding from a false perswasion that it is lawfull: For he that committeth it against his own conscience, presumeth on his force, or other power, which encourages him to commit the same again: but he that doth it by errour, after the errour shewn him, is conformable to the Law.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She presumeth" in older English, today we say "She presumes."
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    I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.  (source)
    presumptuous = inappropriately bold (exercising privileges to which he is not entitled)
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