How to Use take for granted in a Sentence
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Our reliance on electricity for keeping food fresh and for cooking is easy to take for granted.
—Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
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The suction cups or claws adjust pressure and control with the finesse humans take for granted.
—Dallas News, 20 Dec. 2022
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Americans take for granted that their aviation safety, flying in America, is the safest place to do it in the world.
—ABC News, 5 Mar. 2023
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To me, this team is under-appreciated and the fans may take for granted what has been accomplished since 1988.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
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Sixteen years after the birth of Spotify, most of us now take for granted that every piece of music ever created is at our fingertips.
—Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 18 Nov. 2022
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Merely remaining real — surviving the deprivation of home and privacy that most of us take for granted — is here a kind of victory.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
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Many election officials have tried to educate the public in recent months with social media posts, articles and ads about the system so many people take for granted.
—David Klepper, ajc, 8 Nov. 2022
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As news of mass shootings, climate disasters and outbreaks of war dominate headlines, safety is a priority and a privilege that many take for granted.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2023
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Where does that leave the substantial population who use cash to pay for life’s necessities because they are excluded from the financial services that most of us take for granted?
—Richard McGill Murphy, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
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Philosophers today, at least in the English-speaking world, almost all take for granted that the core Cartesian doctrines are theoretical nonstarters.
—Justin E. H. Smith, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
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In Jordan, the second-most water-poor country in the world, people have long learned to live without the constant running water that most American families take for granted.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2022
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