How to Use assumption in a Sentence

assumption

noun
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  • I'm telling you our arrival time on the assumption that you will check to see whether or not our flight is on time before you come to the airport.
  • Her plan is based on the underlying assumption that the economy will improve in the near future.
  • I made the assumption that he was coming, so I was surprised when he didn't show up.
  • He will come home tomorrow. At least, that's my assumption.
  • Many scientific assumptions about Mars were wrong.
  • And the assumption these are super rich people on these yachts?
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • That assumption is a key driver behind a big rally in stocks over the past year.
    — Christine Romans, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But a study of the historical record reveals the flaws in this assumption.
    — Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Hubris is still the provenance of the arrogant assumption.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • As the zine evolved, one of the things that became more and more important to me was to start wrecking people’s assumptions.
    — Shawn Reynaldo, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Starting in the 1970s, shelters were built on the assumption that secrecy is safest.
    — Katheryn Houghton, CBS News, 24 May 2023
  • Exiting from the pandemic, the assumption might be that Noel’s students should be among the least scathed.
    — Heather Hollingsworth, Fortune, 10 June 2023
  • With the late kick time on the East Coast, the assumption was that Colorado would entertain viewers for maybe a half before most of the country turned in for the night.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Those sorts of layers help imply the past and allow the audience to make assumptions about what that would mean for the future.
    — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • This option is also referred to as a lease takeover or assumption.
    — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 20 July 2023
  • The kinder assumption is that someone asking about your accent is looking for a way to connect.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Please stop making assumptions, please don’t judge her.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
  • What’s your best assumption as to why this is happening now, 27 years later?
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
  • That's why what was said before no longer applies, because the assumption is no longer applied.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Although those studies are many decades old, these assumptions became baked in over time.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The same set of assumptions that governed Obamacare led to the imposition of mask mandates and vaccine cards.
    — Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • None of those assumptions are without complications now and Europe has no option but to change with the times.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • At the same time, her colors shift the focus away from skin-deep assumptions and toward the interior lives of her subjects.
    — Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • And that is all while making the assumption that there is causation between the two, not just a correlation.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 18 July 2023
  • And so assumptions made now might not apply in January 2025.
    — CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The evening stated with an assumption that everyone was on team Kelly.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • His hope, though, is that more people than not will stick around through the discomfort to give their assumptions or biases a second thought.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • That follows decades of assumption that competitiveness and bloodthirst at work is the key to making it to the C-suite, and the pandemic may explain the shift.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 29 July 2023
  • Harry responded by saying that assumption was based on the journalist being truthful about the source of the story, which the duke does not believe to be the case.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • His argument went against centuries of assumptions about the line between life and death, but Dr. Morelle was persuaded.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024

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