assumptive
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You can never be assumptive about how that breaks down in terms of gender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
“The kind of losses that we grieve over are the ones that disrupt that assumptive world, which can explain feelings of grief about the death of the Queen,” she says.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2022
I also can't help wishing that "Love, Victor" was bolder in playing with the audience's assumptive gaze.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2020
Until the jury is fully out on Oakland GM Billy Beane’s latest concoction, Mariners fans are advised to not be so assumptive about a 2018 playoff berth.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2018
But it is then called assumptive, when the fact cannot be proved by its own intrinsic evidence, but is defended by some argument brought from extraneous circumstances.
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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