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take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
I assume his train was late
How To Use take for granted In A Sentence
- They take for granted easy access to inexpensive technological, social and collaborative tools. Times, Sunday Times
- I am going to take for granted that you have done your homework and have a proposal that is worth seeing.
- But when you actually do so, you suddenly become aware of how many sights and sounds you just take for granted and ignore in the course of everyday humdrum life.
- Routine chores, that other people may take for granted, have inevitably become a problem.
- In the late 1960s and '70s, second-wave feminists, belittled in today's conservative backlash as bra-burning man-haters, paved the way for rights younger women now take for granted.
- Quite a few of them would even stub out their cigarettes so enraptured, and intimidated, would they be by the blizzard of technical virtuosity that we, today, take for granted. Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15
- These observations suggest to some that bisexuality is a natural state among animals, perhaps Homo sapiens included, despite the sexual-orientation boundaries most people take for granted. ID/Evolution
- The crack and the manners and all the things you take for granted that I dinna have. AN OLDER WOMAN
- If you love sport, it can be easy to take for granted how readily accessible it is. Times, Sunday Times
- If you love sport, it can be easy to take for granted how readily accessible it is. Times, Sunday Times