presuming

Courts like to proceed presuming that the government's acting in good faith, presuming that they're not going to engage in unlawful actions.

England will be all over it presuming they put Wales away earlier in the day.

He told BBC Radio Merseyside: "For everybody's benefit, actually, stepping back and allowing due process to take place is the right option, and that is not presuming guilt and it's not presuming innocence."

That is presuming, however, there are takers to host the 2030 event.

Even more insulting, these accusations of us as puppetmasters devalues Jason, presuming him to be, as he himself points out, “the mindless dummy.”