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 Whether its underlying assumptions hold up against other observations, including measurements of cosmic expansion and the cosmic microwave background, remains an open question. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026 Two agents with very different knowledge or assumptions may struggle to communicate or pursue the same goal. — Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2026 In that space, assumptions can fall away and the subject can be encountered in a preconceptual field, before meaning has settled. — Andrew Zuckerman, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2026 Rapidan Energy, a research firm, predicted an 80% likelihood of fighting resuming, while S&P analysts today raised their 2026 and 2027 assumptions for crude prices. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2026 This is because the assumptions about Majid, the insistence upon reading him as a political avatar, is not confined to busybodies on the street. — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2026 If a woman’s symptoms are filtered through assumptions about her weight or mental health, and the true story of her pain is omitted, AI may learn and reproduce how the woman is framed in the record. — Jennifer Silva, STAT, 6 Nov. 2026 Teams absorb executive decisions quietly to keep moving and often use assumptions nobody confirmed. — Leslie Ellis, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026 But a crisis—such as a military coup, another volcanic eruption of Mount Paektu, or an economic meltdown—can change those assumptions swiftly. — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026

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The gist of the theories, Rothschild said, is that a secret plot is underway to reset the global financial system.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026
The podcaster Candace Owens drove those theories, infuriating her former employer, Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of theories

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Generative AI tools tend to be complacent, validating user premises without questioning the underlying logic.

— Marco Stefanini, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
The letter warns that any attempt by Alterra to stop paying rent or abandon the premises without resolving its contractual obligations would be vigorously contested.

— Brian Maass, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of premises

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But Pessiglione suspects that psychological factors, such as motivations and beliefs, also play a key role.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2026
The company said much of India’s mainstream horror keeps returning to the same supernatural staples and predictable beats, even though the country’s myths, folk tales and local beliefs offer far richer material.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of beliefs

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These presumptions shifted the world’s discourse from how to limit carbon pollution to how to remove it from the atmosphere after the fact.

— Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
To many, not least the young, both literary culture and the world of bookselling are beginning a great new climb, calling into question many presumptions about the digital century and the market models that sustain it.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 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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