something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning
it's a given that television viewers are influenced by advertising, even consciously or subconsciously
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Recent Examples of given
Noun
Schedule flexibility, reliable childcare, predictable transportation—these are treated as givens in how jobs are designed.—
Caroline Fairchild,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2026 Where the show’s values were once givens, almost diorama labels, now they’re presented as more fugitive and unstable, what its characters would hope the world to be.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
But that failed, too, leaving a murky path for Henderson, whose cancer was so rare the World Health Organization had only given it a name in 2021.—
Arthur Allen,
CBS News,
21 Sep. 2026 The 200-day is at $241 and is not a meaningful reference at these levels given how far the stock has traveled.—
Josh Brown,sean Russo,
CNBC,
21 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for given
When sales of used and rare books spiked, booksellers suspected that AI companies were the buyers.
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Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
17 Sep. 2026
No one, however, much less a dubious Spanish public who were more used to mocking than celebrating their country’s best GC rider in a generation, believed that Mas could win the race.
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Chris Marshall-Bell,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2026
Re-Oak California needs donated acorns, volunteer planters and propagators, and money — especially if Crouch is to reach his dream goal of planting 20,000 trees a year.
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