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verb as in believe, take for granted

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

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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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Mr Rowlands assumed they were burgling a tobacco shop and the numbers referred to cigarettes.

"People just assume with kids or young people that when their parents are... arrested and put in prison that they've got family to go to," she said.

But German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who spoke with Trump following his election win, told German media that the incoming US leader had a "more nuanced" position on the war than was commonly assumed.

I assumed it was in some way connected to the fact I was an on-air BBC journalist but I wasn’t sure.

“If you assume that all home modifications are effective, you’re creating a false sense of security,” she said.