DARESAYS Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

daresays

verb

present tense third-person singular of daresay

as in assumes

to form an opinion from little or no evidence I daresay we might manage to finish on time after all

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The narrator assumes his gift for retail politics will charm his old friend; Micah laughs in his face.

— Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Hardly anyone assumes that exact values for pc can be determined.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of assumes

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Logan Wright, the author of Broken China, guesses that growth is now running at no more than 1% — and may even be zero.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
The system consists of a predictive algorithm that guesses how a robot is broken, along with robotic manipulators that actually take the broken robot apart.

— Kohava Mendelsohn, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of guesses

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Rock* supposes there’s a fork in the road where the Beatles take us one way and the Velvet Underground pull us somewhere else entirely.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Book banning supposes that children never age, never leave home, never become their own people outside their parents.

— Rebecca Stafford, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of supposes

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Balasubramanian suspects that even this kind of radical model doesn’t go far enough.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026
British Columbia suspects that OpenAI actually wanted to avoid drawing a hard line that would require OpenAI to report more violent users to the police and expose the public to more of the real-world threats that chatbots could pose.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of suspects

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Homeownership has long been a marker of the American Dream, but this dream presumes autonomy, voice and equitable treatment.

— Stephanie A. Dhuman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
But that logic presumes every single aspect of both studios’ production pipelines will continue to operate normally once Paramount and WBD become one.

— Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of presumes

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