Thesaurus results for ASSUMPTIONS

assumptions

noun

plural of assumption

as in theories

something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning the widespread assumption that violent entertainment leads to violent behavior in children your argument is faulty because it's based on erroneous assumptions

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Recent Examples of assumptions And with it, so too were any assumptions that this season at USC would be much different than the four that came before it. — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026 Analysts on Monday pressed Novo executives on their pricing assumptions, questioning whether the company’s next pipeline of drugs can sustain premium price points once Wegovy and Ozempic lose exclusivity. — Annika Kim Constantino,elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026 The same broad audience, reached during the same weeks with the same budget and the same demographic assumptions, performed at a fraction of that rate. — Tony Gonzalez, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 An institution unable to revise imagery becomes a museum of assumptions. — Frank Porcu, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026 And archaeologists not involved with the study are wary of making assumptions as to why ancient people were attracted to betel nuts. — Pien Huang, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026 Mercury opposes Saturn, challenging assumptions about a plan, belief, trip, course of study, or future direction. — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026 Like the assumptions being made shortly after he was hired at UNC. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2026

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And so, at first light, when firefighters had won the day and the smoke cleared to reveal the ostrich flock still standing, the sight didn’t lead to any reconsideration of the night’s theories of clandestine slaughter.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
The grand jury didn't find any evidence suggesting a crime occurred, or that Wells' death was motivated by race, and also took direct aim at the theories circulating on social media about the people on the boats.

— Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of theories

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The lawyer collected the papers and said Leigh was to leave the premises.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
Maison Estelle, a private members club in London, temporarily shuttered today following a Metropolitan Police investigation outside the premises.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of premises

Noun

This kind of attempt to observe without tackling with hypotheses and conjectures and theories, right?

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026
In science, this means systems that can generate hypotheses, run experiments, analyze results and produce scientific papers.

— Julio Ottino, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of hypotheses

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Lawyers argued that the law infringes on the daycare’s right to protect their kids and direct their upbringing, as well as the freedom to associate with those who have similar public health beliefs, according to previous Idaho Statesman reporting.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2026
His Christian beliefs give him a reason to look beyond his golf career.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of beliefs

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These were all reasonable presumptions at that time but would also require years of data to evaluate.

— David N. Hackney, STAT, 26 Aug. 2026
Mungiu refuses to supply easy answers or simple paths to identification in this compelling provocation, which poses unresolvable questions to viewers about our biases and presumptions.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of presumptions

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Not really Dagmar Bruss, professor and Head of the Quantum Information Theory group at HHU, and her doctoral researcher, Pedro Barrios Hita, conducted a new analysis of the postulates used in the 2021 paper and found one to be too restrictive.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
Another postulates that sleep removes waste from the brain.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026

Definition of postulates

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Many are leaning into their own unsubstantiated suppositions, even those not backed by evidence.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Now Kennedy took her suppositions even further, reexamining the literature on a famous Olmec site where thousands of toad skeletons had been excavated.

— Kimon de Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026

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