'It is phallic because in its exhibition of penises it presumes to know, to possess an adequate expression of the truth of 'sex' ― as if sex were as unitary as the phallus presumes itself to be.
Fred Mish, retired editor in chief of Merriam-Webster, finds that "presumed by itself as an adjective just means 'supposed' or 'assumed' and really nothing more.
It may be assumed that abnormal uterine bleeding was the indication for endometrial sampling in sarcoma patients and not the presumed fibroid itself.
ES: We have a National Security Agency that's presumed for itself funding and authority that have placed it in a role of a National Surveillance Agency.
The ultimate manifestation of egg neglect, desertion (incubation is terminated permanently), is itself presumed to be the consequence of life-history costs and benefits [20].
It is presumed that HCV itself is a risk factor for TB infection regardless of whether the HCV was treated with IBT.
In Iran itself, the presumed make-or-break nature of the I.A.E.A.'s second visit this year was roundly ignored.
Some of those pictures — perhaps the mystery album itself — were presumed to have ended up in Bavaria, he said.
Under these laws, the property itself is presumed to be guilty of criminal activity.
Like any other genetic marker in common use, for example almost all microsatellites and SNPs in any given genome, the allelic variation of the marker itself is presumed to be neutral for the trait under examination.
