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assumptions

noun

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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 These failures stemmed not from new vulnerabilities, but from basic security flaws like weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints, and reliance on assumptions over robust controls. — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Was there anything that challenged your own assumptions about what's happening along our northern border? — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 31 July 2026 September 23 – October 22 A relationship may need fewer assumptions and firmer agreements. — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026 The overlapping relationships heighten risks because many of the industry's biggest companies are increasingly dependent on the same AI customers and the same assumptions about future demand, Moody's said. — Hugh Son, CNBC, 24 July 2026 Nicole Diamond, Stout’s defense attorney, argued that the prosecution presented in court a theory that relies on a witness who presented her assumptions as facts to investigators. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026 In his first official statement here, Rose seemed to confirm all assumptions about his character. — Kansas City Star, 18 July 2026

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According to individual needs theories, there is no single ideal amount of sleep, because genetics, age, health, activity level and even life circumstances influence how much sleep someone needs.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 31 July 2026
The idea of functionalism was Putnam’s response to the fashionable theories of the time about how to understand mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, judgments, and beliefs.

— Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of theories

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The researchers, however, did not find that their data supported their hypotheses entirely.

— Refractor, Refractor, 27 July 2026
That means moving beyond tracking metrics to forming hypotheses about people and performance, then using data to explain why results happen, not just what happened.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of hypotheses

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Joining him will be Matt Brannagan of the Hoffman Institute Foundation, an organization that focuses on helping adults transform their beliefs and perceptions to live a more joyful, balanced life.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 29 July 2026
Executives remain in a heightened state due to being the ultimate problem-solvers and the internal struggle of cognitive dissonance, where their minds constantly resolve mismatches between beliefs and actions.

— Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of beliefs

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The letter makes presumptions about herbicides and pesticides that do not line up with its proposal outlined on a website detailing the training center project, the statement said.

— Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
But, once again, some presumptions were made by the auditors.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 10 June 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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The past eight months have exposed both suppositions.

— Liam Twomey, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
As Jackie herself once reminded John, a Kennedy has no choice but to accept that the press and public will speculate, interpret, exaggerate, and invent notions about them based on their own suppositions.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026

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