Sentence examples for been presumed from inspiring English sources
verb
To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission.
- Don't make the decision yourself and presume too much.
Roughly 2,000 have been presumed dead.
Sixty had been presumed missing earlier.
The phone has since been presumed dead.
He said that because the victim was "poor and immigrant" she had been presumed innocent, and because Strauss-Kahn was "powerful" he had been presumed guilty.
Certain superficial traits like skin pigmentation have long been presumed to be genetic.
In the Pakistani press, the unknown blasphemer BenDZac has usually been presumed to be "a Jew".
What has long been presumed to be the earliest writing, the Sumerian tablets, comprises administrative records.
Slave ownership, it appears, was far more common than has previously been presumed.
The body of Miss Hughes, who has long been presumed dead, has never been found.
Robin Ballachey, the US national also missing after the crash, has been presumed dead.
On Christmas of 1643 he reached France, where he had been presumed dead.
