Sentence examples for assuming it would happen from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "assuming it would happen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a hypothetical situation or condition that is taken for granted as likely to occur.
Example: "We made our plans for the event, assuming it would happen despite the weather forecast."
Alternatives: "presuming it would occur" or "taking for granted that it would happen".

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He was encouraged by what he did yesterday but was not assuming it would happen again.

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But they didn't take further steps to progress the idea externally, because they just assumed it would happen on its own.

"I hoped to be in the first team during preseason, but I certainly didn't assume it would happen," Packwood said.

We've had Don't Stop, one of this outlandishly successful band's most galumphing hits, the song where you assumed It Would Happen.

If you were living in a place like Nablus or Jenin and were told by your leadership that things were going ahead and you heard about negotiators coming and going, you assumed it would happen.

"You know it's happened at other universities, and you know schools have been through these situations... but I don't think anybody would have assumed it would happen here.

At 18 and a half, I am now a licensed driver -- and not even as a result of ill-masked comments from my parents hinting at an assured miserable future in the event that I never learn how to drive, which is truthfully how I had always assumed it would happen.

Many of our straight friends dated for close to a decade before tying the knot, and while marriage was always the end goal, we both assumed it would happen sometime down the road, when we could afford to pay for a lavish wedding and honeymoon.

"He'd always assumed it would just happen – one day he'd wake up and find himself on the other side".

So they assumed it would not happen, at least not to them.

So it was a slightly odd thing where, being naturally pessimistic, I assumed it would never happen and then was very surprised when it seemed like it would.

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