If someone with the prosthesis regains the ability to store new memories, then it's safe to assume that it works.

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Given her family's willingness to bring her inside the barbed wire gates of the facility, however, it's safe to assume that she is a native-born citizen.

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He was waiting to speak to the Celtic antagonist Kevin Garnett, and it's safe to assume he was not there to ask Garnett out for pomegranate mojitos.

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Still, given the cast's recent MTV Movie Awards reunion (which, notably, excluded star Anna Kendrick), it's safe to assume that most of the major players will be back for a second round of choral comedy.

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It's safe to assume that a sweeping manifesto for fiscal union is not quite what he had in mind.

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That excludes New York City, though it's safe to assume the cost of housing in Manhattan is off the charts.

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"It's safe to assume we're talking to all of the major carriers, " said Jannie Luong Nguyen, a spokeswoman for Huawei's U.S. business.

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It's probably safe to assume the topic of this mini-summit was how those states' delegates might be seated at the Democratic national convention and just whom they should represent.

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However, if you read de Chastelain's words across into the IRA's armoury, it is probably safe to assume that he was talking about mortars, rockets, machine guns, rifles and Semtex.

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Nor is it safe to assume that everyone's intentions are good.

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