as in assumptions
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 givens
Private cloud is also where organizations can focus on delivering AI and what’s next, knowing that security, governance and compliance are givens rather than points of concern.
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Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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assumptions
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Amazon isn't the only tech company that appears to make assumptions about AI's effects on code.—
NPR,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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Driving Danaher’s topline guidance are the assumptions that biotechnology delivers about 5% revenue growth; life sciences revenue grows at a low-single digit rate; and that diagnostics is largely flat on an annual basis.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Givens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/givens. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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