Assume
Assume verb - To take to or upon oneself.
Seem like and assume are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Seem like" instead a verb "Assume".
Nearby Words: assumption, assuming
Seem like
Both terms in one sentence
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Despite what must seem like very strange statements about them, they assume she already knows.
Source: Literature / Matched - This might not seem like a spoiler at first, as you might assume it's referring to Old *Mute, who "died" nine hundred years ago and is thus Doomed by Canon.
Source: Visual Novel / Hate Plus - She even has her Day Guard make it seem like she's attempting to suppress the article so the conspiracy theorists will assume it's true and leave Fluttershy alone.
Source: Zero-Approval Gambit
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