How to Use assessment in a Sentence

assessment

noun
  • The owners claimed the tax assessment on their house was too high.
  • I don't agree with his assessment of the problem.
  • It's a difficult problem that requires careful assessment.
  • The assessment and reassessment of her books will go on.
    Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • But that assessment could change later in the weekend, Barnes wrote.
    David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Roberts agreed with the assessment that Buehler is now overlooked in the wake of the team’s nine-figure deals with Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • There are betting markets for just about all of these unknowns, so Galen asks the crew to make an assessment of the going odds.
    Galen Druke, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The monitors are there to ensure there isn’t further harm to anything flagged in the assessment.
    Michael Casey, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
  • There was no assessment yet about the fire in the mountainous Upcountry.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Both Wittenberg and the current board declined to answer questions about the cost of the assessment.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • At least one expert who followed the trial agreed with that assessment.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
  • This could skew the model’s assessment of nations that don’t clearly fall onto one side of the spectrum or the other.
    Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, as many as 85 to 90 percent of blindness can now be prevented if people get the right assessment and care.
    Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
  • For Munn, the assessment came back with a lifetime risk of 37 percent—a number that seems low, but set off an alarm for Aliabadi.
    Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
  • But the loss in Ohio does occasion a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges the pro-life movement faces now and what will likely be a long battle ahead.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Plenty of people in the Missouri city agreed with Henry’s own harsh assessment.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Officials say after a thorough assessment of the scene, the shelter-in-place has been reduced to a one-mile radius.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The boards A week into summer workouts, Dutcher was asked for an early assessment of his team.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The rule would designate a lead agency for each project review and set stricter deadlines and page limits for assessments.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The redesign will involve three checkpoints through the school year ending in a final and shortened summative assessment in the spring.
    Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2023
  • There is certainly no shortage of people who would agree with that assessment.
    Jim Harrington, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Grabbing breakfast or a BLT could require you to make some financial assessments in the near future.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • At least that's airline pilot Ken Schulte's assessment.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • Many critics don’t agree with the assessment; the pic currently has a 67 percent Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2023
  • Fortunately, his new company was willing to do a face-to-face assessment with his new boss.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Beaumont told the group the pretrial services program would begin with an assessment of detainees who might be qualified when they are brought to the jail.
    Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Some comments noted that their interpretations of the green shapes lined up with Yilin’s assessment.
    Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Conferences across the western third of the country have announced their postseason award winners, but the Hotline aims for a higher-level assessment of the state of play.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Do a risk assessment of everything that could go wrong and devise solutions for those problems.
    Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But based on the climate pledges that countries have made to date, greenhouse gas emissions are likely to fall by just 2 percent this decade, according to a U.N. assessment published this month.
    E&e News, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023

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