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• We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.
• Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
• Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found.
• Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
• Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:[...]it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
• So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
• Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
• ambition assuming the mask of religion
• The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
• I'm assuming everything is fine
• Afghan forces gradually assume more responsibility for security.
• As guardian of a minor's person, you basically assume the role of the minor's parent.