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
Without an indictment, and the evidence supporting it, we're left with little more than presumptions.
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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
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
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Omar’s growing outrage, especially when precious time is lost because of jammed phone lines, troubling silences and false assumptions, rankles Mahdi, the most overstretched of anyone at the call center.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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The width of certain spectral lines—fingerprints of the light emitted during flares—has long been wider than expected based on standard temperature assumptions.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Presumptions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presumptions. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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