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The Venice Commission later recommended that judges should be able to assume office without requiring a presidential oath.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Tommy refused to be upfront about why he would assume El-Sayed, of all people, would support them to begin with.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

Second Lt George's exit from the Warrior created a "clunking noise", which may have led the commander to assume he was safely off the vehicle and had shut the doors, Col Watson added.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

So raise your hand if you know — or even just assume — elections officials have been doing something with those ballots as they arrive, other than just throwing them in a pile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Frank didn’t want to assume that Conor had taken Jason’s mitt.

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon

Unlike an approach that assumes the acceleration began in a particular year, this method allows the data to determine the most likely timing of the shift.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Your lender will approve you for a number that assumes nothing else in your life costs money.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The Aa3 rating assumes that France successfully adopts a deficit-reducing budget for 2027, the agency added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The lower bound assumes IBM closes around 10% or more of the delayed second-quarter deals, while the upper bound represents all the deals closing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

She assumes that she convinced me, and, well, she did—in a way.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

He had thought that was good news as he assumed the firm must have had offers on the table.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

That makes it a potentially valuable testing ground for theories in which time is not assumed to exist independently of the system being studied.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

“All authority is assumed, and if other people don’t accept your authority then you don’t have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.”

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Warsh suggested the AI boom may be more sensitive to interest rates than assumed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

They had what they assumed was his phone number, but when they called it someone other than Greenberg answered.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

ExxonMobil agreed to take over as operator in September, assuming responsibility from France-based energy major TotalEnergies, which retains a significant stake.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Yorkshire Water said Medalova would join the company on Monday as part of a transition period before assuming the chief executive officer role full time in the new year.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

This is not out of character; his habit is to prematurely declare victory in everything, apparently assuming that the force of his declaration makes it a reality.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

His work focuses on adapting medical care to the characteristics of individual patients instead of assuming that everyone will respond to the same treatment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Especially considering people come to me with their questions, assuming that if Rae’s tight with Jupe, I’m the third Musketeer.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone