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Recent Examples of daresay And while the mute Leatherface steals the show, the movie's documentary-like opening narration and audio of heinous news reports hint at something, daresay, more sophisticated. RenÉ A. Guzman, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2019
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Verb
  • Leading up to the release of Showgirl, Swift kept fans guessing about the project through a number of methods.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Despite advances in technology, some people still believe myths about guessing the baby’s gender during pregnancy.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • Additionally, vice president of operations Donna Washington will assume a new role as vice president of external affairs.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Enterprises often assume that simply scaling data—collecting millions more images or video hours—will close the performance gap.
    Brian Moore, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Are you supposed to dampen parchment paper?
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Basketball’s supposed to be fun.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • The rescue mission will prioritize locating those presumed alive, Suharyanto said, but the bodies of the victims will be recovered in due time.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Coast Guard pulled the rafters aboard — they were saved, and presumed their rescuers would swiftly deliver them to Florida.
    Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gonzalez, the former National Security Council official, said senior policymakers thought that embassy staff were showing favoritism to Bukele, sending reports that minimized the growing crisis of democracy in El Salvador.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Initially, the source was thought to be in an area between the football stadium and the high school’s dock area, but the gas utility determined that the leak was somewhere within the building.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • Eastern members of the alliance, including Estonia, Poland, and Romania, recently reported incursions into their airspace, while drones that disrupted Danish airports are suspected of being linked to Russia.
    Claire Cameron, semafor.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The incident remains under investigation, Gajewski said, but authorities suspect the driver may have been experiencing a mental health crisis.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Daresay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daresay. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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