as in assumptions
something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning
the presumption of innocence
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Recent Examples of presumptions
Even the Boston Police Department had already issued a press statement, written by still another shady cop from Canton, declaring Karen Read guilty as charged – no presumptions of innocence in Norfolk County.
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
And helping Kyiv get these systems will necessitate that NATO change its presumptions and priorities.
—Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
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
Without an indictment, and the evidence supporting it, we're left with little more than presumptions.
—Isaac Saul, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
This group, a key driving force in the success of today's economy, should not be ignored, let alone scoffed at based on a series of cartoonish delusions and misplaced presumptions.
—Rory O'Hara, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Instead, Laura saw a woman, a relative stranger, whose flagrant presumptions had unwittingly changed the course of her own life, or perhaps only hastened that change.
—Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
And helping Kyiv get these systems will necessitate that NATO change its presumptions and priorities.
—Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
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
Without an indictment, and the evidence supporting it, we're left with little more than presumptions.
—Isaac Saul, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
This group, a key driving force in the success of today's economy, should not be ignored, let alone scoffed at based on a series of cartoonish delusions and misplaced presumptions.
—Rory O'Hara, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Instead, Laura saw a woman, a relative stranger, whose flagrant presumptions had unwittingly changed the course of her own life, or perhaps only hastened that change.
—Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for presumptions
assumptions
Noun
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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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“Presumptions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presumptions. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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