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What is the verb for presumption?

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presume
  1. (transitive, now rare) To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission. [from 14th c.]
  2. (transitive) With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission. [from 14th c.]
  3. (transitive) To assume to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose. [from 14th c.]
  4. (intransitive) To be presumptuous; with on, upon, to take advantage (of), to take liberties (with). [from 15th c.]
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  6. Examples:
    1. “For now, judges seem to presume that everyone is relatively good at voice recognition, better, in fact, than the research suggests is possible.”
      “I cannot presume to have the arrogance to tell someone how they should go about finding the balances in their own lives.”
      “I presume he's fine, in good health and that, but it's very unlike him to pop off.”
presumed
presumes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of presume
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The law presumes that the defamatory statement was made honestly and in good faith.”
      “Paternalism presumes sentimental relations will create justice between unequals.”
      “This, of course, presumes filing the lawsuit in a jurisdiction with such a law.”
presumeth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of presume
presumest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of presume
presuming
  1. present participle of presume
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It's quite another matter if someone has done you wrong, or is presuming on your friendship in some unseemly fashion.”
      “England were able to shift the heavier Welsh pack around the paddock, presuming that the men in red shirts would run out of puff.”
      “Would it not end up trivialising and over-simplifying human issues that the narrative was presuming to metaphor?”
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