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assume

[uh-soom] / əˈsum /






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The property could probably be sold for $625,000 according to Assume Loans’ McDonough, as the local housing market is hot.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Assume a similar valuation now and each share could trade around $25 based on about 400 million shares outstanding.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

Assume minimum payments are about 2% of each card’s balance:

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2025

Assume that the billiard is perfect: the walls are perfectly bouncy, there are no other objects on the table, the motion of the ball is frictionless, and so on.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

Assume the probability to be one out of 10,000 that a particular dream matches in a few vivid details some sequence of events in real life.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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