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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
Hierarchy matters less than ideas, and consultants are trained to challenge assumptions and present counterarguments, even to senior partners or client CEOs.
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Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Her existence in the vibrant capital city of Sepphoris brings into questions some of our traditional assumptions of Mary as an impoverished illiterate from a backwater rural village with no exposure to Greco-Roman culture.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
To interrogate our own assumptions, to stay open when experience, dialogue, or suffering presses against us — that is philosophy at its deepest.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Some assumptions are more plausible than others, but the fact remains that no two people can ever perfectly understand one another, let alone two people from completely different backgrounds.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2025
Financial models that were tied to a $550 million project cost can be untethered from unrealistic assumptions needed to recoup expenses.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
This finding offers new insights into the life cycles of stars and the science of stellar explosions, challenging previous assumptions about nova recurrence rates and shell formation.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
These findings highlight a more significant aspect of how AI systems encode and perpetuate cultural assumptions, as well as where decoding errors might occur in the human reader's mind.
—ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
Three key assumptions drive schools' current model.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Her existence in the vibrant capital city of Sepphoris brings into questions some of our traditional assumptions of Mary as an impoverished illiterate from a backwater rural village with no exposure to Greco-Roman culture.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
To interrogate our own assumptions, to stay open when experience, dialogue, or suffering presses against us — that is philosophy at its deepest.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Some assumptions are more plausible than others, but the fact remains that no two people can ever perfectly understand one another, let alone two people from completely different backgrounds.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2025
Financial models that were tied to a $550 million project cost can be untethered from unrealistic assumptions needed to recoup expenses.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
This finding offers new insights into the life cycles of stars and the science of stellar explosions, challenging previous assumptions about nova recurrence rates and shell formation.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
These findings highlight a more significant aspect of how AI systems encode and perpetuate cultural assumptions, as well as where decoding errors might occur in the human reader's mind.
—ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
Three key assumptions drive schools' current model.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assumptions
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The season drew heavy criticism for its glacial pace and incoherent plotting, generating more Reddit theories than actual scares and leaving viewers more haunted by what could have been.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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Combining investigative journalism, DNA analysis and cinematic dramatization, the docuseries examines four competing theories about Columbus’ origins and the mystery around the titles bestowed on him by the Catholic Monarchs.—
Emiliano De Pablos,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Oct. 2025
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Police K-9s swept the premises repeatedly throughout the morning, and the court closed one of its two entrances to divert all traffic through a single door.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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None of those jack-of-all-trades models came up with the hypotheses that proved experimentally correct.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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Danish police Chief Superintendent Jens Jespersen told reporters on Tuesday authorities were investigating several hypotheses, including the possibility that the drones were launched from ships.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
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Daniels also said the bill could conflict with the higher education overhaul, Senate Bill 1, which prohibits universities from taking a position on controversial beliefs or policies.—
Jessie Balmert,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Oct. 2025
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For Hughes, the university’s mission should be about equipping students to think critically rather than insulating them from professors’ political beliefs.—
Julia Bonavita , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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And helping Kyiv get these systems will necessitate that NATO change its presumptions and priorities.—
ANDRIY ZAGORODNYUK,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Sep. 2025
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These presumptions are not conclusive and may be overcome by evidence that physical presence, even if for more than nine months during the tax year, was merely for a temporary or transitory purpose.—
Tom Cullinan,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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One of the big suppositions behind the big data center boom is that the most cutting edge AI models will be at least as large, if not larger, than the leading models that exist today.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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She’s bemused by suppositions about the advantages of her family legacy, which in reality boasts a centuries-deep ledger of addiction, estrangement, and untimely death.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Assumptions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assumptions. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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