verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be presumed dead (= used when someone is missing and people think they are certainly dead )
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The two boys have not been seen since they fell into the river, and are now presumed dead.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
only
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I can only presume that Lucker has failed in the macho stakes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many scientists presumed the new damage to the forests to be the result of higher levels of pollution.
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The committee presumed that its decisions would be carried out.
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The defendant is presumed innocent until proved guilty.
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The price includes all your transportation and hotels, I presume ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a 19 year-old student, I presume I am one of these.
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Bhagat Singh, the presumed killer, eluded arrest and quickly achieved the status of hero.
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It presumes that reality is dynamic rather than static, and therefore seeks relationships between ideas, to aim at synthesis.
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One presumes his wife Eimear knew that when she married him.
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Persons leaving a Communist country were normally presumed to be fleeing persecution.
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They say Mind presumed an inquiry would involve the families and those advising them and we were astonished when it did not.
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This, she presumed, was life.
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Was this the treatment Roman meted out to any female who presumed a little too much, grew a little too possessive?