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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daresays
  1. assumes
  2. guesses
  3. supposes
  4. suspects
  5. thinks
  6. presumes
Verb
  • Upon approval, the new lender pays off your existing loan and then assumes the remaining balance.
    — Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 8 July 2026
  • One person, faced with a partner’s short reply, assumes fatigue or distraction.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of assumes
Verb
  • When a player guesses a word, the squares change color to provide feedback.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
  • This adds another layer of protection if someone steals or guesses your password.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
Definition of guesses
Verb
  • This is not true, unless, Miss Manners supposes, your definition of formality begins and ends with having to wear shoes.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • Farrell supposes that no high school baseball team in the nation has traveled as much as Orange Lutheran has.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 2 May 2026
Definition of supposes
Verb
  • Nicole Brown, a historian of Martha Jefferson at Monticello, suspects that the impossible date was the result of turmoil in Jefferson’s personal life.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • The plot follows an HR executive named Val at a South Bay aerospace company who suspects that Leela, a young, female engineer, was snubbed for a promotion.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Definition of suspects
Verb
  • But Smith thinks that the export control used against Anthropic has been misread as an effort to cut off foreign users specifically, when the government’s intent was to deprive everyone of access.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • Along the way, Cleo discovers that the monsters’ aren’t as monstrous as most everyone thinks.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 9 July 2026
Definition of thinks
Verb
  • This presumes that their athletic ability would translate onto the soccer pitch.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Creativity, though, presumes a background in classic technique onto which a personal point of view is added.
    — Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 3 July 2026
Definition of presumes
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“Daresays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daresays. Accessed 13 Jul. 2026.

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