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as in gall
shameless boldness
shocked by his presumption in insisting that we buy his raffle tickets
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as in assumption
something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning
the presumption of innocence
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Recent Examples of presumption
The founders did not foresee the emergence of political parties and their winner-take-all slates of electors, which make a mockery of all presumptions of virtuous choosing by a select few.
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Joseph J. Ellis, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
Via their anticipatory obedience, the user’s mindset went into the AI interaction with a presumption that the authority of the AI was of the highest caliber.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
So that presumption can be overcome by DNA and that's what people have to do.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Although poll watching is itself normal, the GOP is training and deploying armies of monitors with the presumption of fraud, flooding election offices with public-records requests, and filing endless challenges to voter-registration records.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
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Joseph J. Ellis, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
Via their anticipatory obedience, the user’s mindset went into the AI interaction with a presumption that the authority of the AI was of the highest caliber.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
So that presumption can be overcome by DNA and that's what people have to do.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Although poll watching is itself normal, the GOP is training and deploying armies of monitors with the presumption of fraud, flooding election offices with public-records requests, and filing endless challenges to voter-registration records.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for presumption
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And Big Government had the gall to charge me $35 to get in?Peter Rubin, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2024
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The females will then find a gall, or a growth on a plant caused by mites, insects or some other kind of infestation.Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2024
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Interest expense for the quarter was $0, down from $8.1 million in the previous year, due to the assumption of outstanding debt by the Acquirer in connection with the Merger.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Many assumptions about the negative impacts of low fertility on the economy are likewise either overstated or unsupported by evidence.Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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The pot shattered, severing tissue and nerves in Treinen’s thumb.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Severe frostbite can lead to long-term complications like chronic pain and nerve damage.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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Dastmalchian gets to play it all — disbelief, arrogance, grieving, terrified — sometimes in the same moment.Jenelle Riley, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
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These things are a big investment of time and to have not one, but two of them that might otherwise have had a reasonable expectation of success — probably arrogance on my part — but still, many times an author who gets published once can get published a second time.Choire Sicha, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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Other elements add more layers, including Cross getting ensnared in a Black Lives Matter protest and having Alex face a real freak of a nemesis, portrayed with depraved confidence by Ryan Eggold.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Trump will navigate world politics with greater confidence this time around.Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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To hit big international sales numbers there usually needs to be a US theatrical assurance.Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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Eighty-five percent of consumers want companies to transparently share AI assurance practices before bringing products equipped with AI technology to market.Greg Brunk, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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My phone has the audacity to text me when news has happened, which is so bold.Josef Adalian, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
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That chaos is calibrated for maximum audacity thanks to visual effects supervisor Dan Sturm’s prudently incorporated CGI, which doesn’t skimp on the wow factor and is further amped up by composer Cody Fry’s cacophonous, rambunctious score.Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Presumption.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presumption. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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