presume

In a sentence

Six example sentences with presume, each labelled with its topic.

• Do not presume the last bus runs on Sundays; villages here often go quiet from Saturday evening onward.

  Travel

• The parser presumed every date arrived in American order, which broke the moment a customer in Paris signed up.

  Technology

• Early astronomers presumed the orbits were circles because circles seemed likelier, and the data resisted them for a century.

  Science

• Never presume the oven runs at the temperature on the dial; most are off by twenty degrees, and cakes know it.

  Cooking

• The defender presumed the guard would drive left again, as she had all night, and was still leaning when the three went up.

  Basketball

• The shop presumed most customers would pay by card, as they had for years, and kept only forty dollars in the till.

  Business

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More Academic words

• eloquent
• validity
• variation
• inducing
• hierarchy
• maximize
• compensated
• activating
• innate
• institution
• summarize
• psychology