How to Use presumption in a Sentence

presumption

noun

• The trial was unfair from the beginning because there was no presumption of innocence.
• The ruling forced the SBA to drop its use of the presumption.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
• But the plan also hung on the presumption that the third dose would do the trick.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 6 Mar. 2022
• The presumption is that everyone feels the same way as you.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• But the presumption is that people will have to continue to take them to keep the weight off.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2023
• The presumption of innocence and the burden of proof are not just words.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 17 June 2023
• When my parents came to the US, there was no presumption that the government would take care of them.
  — Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• The idea that three doses will work is the presumption of Pfizer and some experts.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2022
• What, what is odd is there’s a presumption in some circles that the rural votes are Yes.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
• But neither would be able to escape the presumption of guilt.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 May 2022
• The presumption is founded, not altogether well, on the word of a ghost.
  — Hannah Gold, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• What throws me on this is that this, or presumption that Matt Huffman, as soon as he gets elected to the House, could be the speaker.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
• But the presumption can fail a small number of families like the Benedicts.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• The subtyping of the neuraminidase — the N in the virus’ name — is still underway, but the presumption is that the birds and the man were infected with H5N1 viruses.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 4 May 2022
• My caveat is that the presumption here is that the much-younger woman is vulnerable, but who knows?
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
• But now there's even a chance of kind of shattering the presumptions that Donald Trump's going to run away with this.
  — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• Coaches were thought to possess the most potent form of GDS, and some took advantage of the presumption.
  — Tess McNulty, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• Although the presumption now is that this was done out of some leftist sense of equality, that was not the reason.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence and will have his day in court.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• In the United States, the default presumption is that rich people don’t pay taxes.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 June 2022
• Conversely, the reveal of fundamental plot beats leads to the presumption that there’s more in store even if that’s not the case.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• The presumption that an out-of-towner was going to swoop in and fix everything rankled.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• That three doses will work is the working presumption of Pfizer and some experts.
  — Matt Richtel, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2022
• The presumption of working-class virtue lacks the moral basis that a David-vs.-Goliath analogy would imply.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Sep. 2023
• Best is queasy about this, not for its mood but, rather, the presumption of affirmation to be found on the other side of subjection.
  — The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• Critics say that amounts to a presumption that defendants are guilty.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• Some of our current moral conceptions and presumptions may come to seem just as confused.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The other thing would be the repercussions that come with assumption and presumption.
  — Rebecca Theodore-Vachon, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 May 2022
• There is a presumption the Orioles will do so with catcher Adley Rutschman, the first overall pick in the 2019 draft who has since become baseball’s top prospect.
  — Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• But that is an appropriate price to pay for making such a rude presumption.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024