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verb as in believe, take for granted

Strongest matches

accept, conclude, consider, estimate, expect, guess, infer, presume, speculate, suspect, think, understand

Strong matches

ascertain, conjecture, deduce, deem, divine, fancy, find, gather, hypothesize, imagine, judge, posit, postulate, predicate, presuppose, suppose, surmise, theorize

verb as in take, undertake

verb as in adopt, acquire

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annex, appropriate, arrogate, borrow, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, grab, hijack, liberate, preempt, seize, snatch, swipe, usurp

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Not so Maps, which, as we neared San José, began chiming in with a quite complicated alternate route, designed, I assumed, to avoid freeway traffic.

“Laser Hair” for the hairline and “everywhere else,” which we assume means laser hair removal.

Hayes became the board’s executive director in May when the Republican state auditor assumed control over the board.

I don’t think Johansson and Ali will take as much pride in “Rebirth,” assuming they bother to watch it.

"But I assumed it was about being in a new church with new people, and we were just coming out of the pandemic. There was no red flag."

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.