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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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  1. assumes
  2. guesses
  3. supposes
  4. suspects
  5. thinks
  6. presumes
Verb
  • Legacy SaaS assumes a human will return to the interface, and an AI-native platform assumes an agent is always running.
    — Rafael Flores, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The low case assumes almost two-thirds of current reactors are expected to retire.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 15 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
Verb
  • Book banning supposes that children never age, never leave home, never become their own people outside their parents.
    — Rebecca Stafford, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
  • But that view wrongly supposes that Abundance was meant to be its own electoral lane.
    — Ryder Kessler, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026
Definition of supposes
Verb
  • The team suspects the increase in the rate and intensity of earthquakes shows that Earth’s crust did not return to normal after the final test in 2017, but instead seismicity increased as at least two preexisting faults became active, Kim said.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Authorities encouraged anyone who suspects a driver is impaired to call the department at 916-714-5111 or 911.
    — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of suspects
Verb
  • JPMorgan's trading desk thinks that Warsh will have to toe a fine line for the stock market to rise.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Yet one of China’s leading robot startup founders thinks there are still a few years before robots truly break into the public consciousness.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of thinks
Verb
  • But this presumes a kind of psychological transparency that simply doesn’t hold up.
    — Brian O'Neill, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The group presumes the deal would need approval from Chicago’s City Council as well.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of presumes
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