something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning
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Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.—
Will Oremus,
Washington Post,
5 June 2023 In the Lanez trial, at any given moment, a follower might believe Lanez’s DNA was conclusively not found on the gun used during the shooting, or that Kylie Jenner kicked Megan out of her house — though there’s no evidence to support either idea.—
Char Adams,
NBC News,
21 Dec. 2022
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
Disney+ has given a green light to Afterlife with Archie, an hourlong drama series based on the best-selling Archie comic book series by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
20 July 2026 The topic of the meeting was how to manage the area’s limited water supply—which comes from the city of El Paso—given recent commercial and residential development in the area.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for given
The new facility will allow scientists and engineers to analyze used fuel cores, comparing real-world performance data with predictions from advanced design and testing processes.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
25 July 2026
One of the cheapest paths to an EV that can run 250 to 300 miles or more in a single charge is a used Tesla.
In both Antipodean countries, the virus was first found in the same type of subantarctic seabird –– the brown skua, an aggressive scavenger that is prone to attacking like a crow.
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Todd Symons,
CNN Money,
22 July 2026
Cream and white bouclé sofas are especially prone to showing spills, grime and dye transfer from clothing.
September 23 – October 22 A relationship may need fewer assumptions and firmer agreements.
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Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
26 July 2026
The effect was roughly a third the size of labeling a headline false, and the authors traced it to an assumption of full automation with no human oversight.
One day before SpaceX priced the largest IPO in history—a $75 billion raise that valued Elon Musk’s rocket-and-AI conglomerate near $2 trillion—MSCI ESG Research handed the company a CCC rating.
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Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2026
After Jonathan India underwent shoulder surgery, the Royals handed the keystone reins to Michael Massey and Nick Loftin.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
23 July 2026
By reproducing Campbell’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe portraits at industrial scale, Warhol collapsed the distinction between commerce and culture, suggesting that mass production and repetition could become a form of value in itself.
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Amy O’Brien,
Vogue,
21 July 2026
The country’s power grid collapsed three times this month, while water service, food production, transportation, garbage collection and medical services have been severely disrupted.
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