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That’s also why, when “Fjord” opens with soft piano chords playing “Amazing Grace,” it’s safe to assume the song will be an integral motif throughout the film.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

"Event planning must therefore assume that a crocodile sighting is possible… No natural waterway in crocodile country can be guaranteed to be crocodile-free."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The intended parents then assume all legal-support obligations.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

But assume we can learn nothing about other people’s interiority by their faces and we end up living in our own alternate form of prosopagnosia, unable to meaningfully recognize another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Although Seven was technically the Town Uncle, she needed a lot of training before she could assume her duties and be the intermediary for animal affairs and complaints.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

At REDCAT, the superb Rosemarie DeWitt assumes Marvel’s place, standing in for Ford but never attempting anything as crass as an impersonation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

A surrogate plays an extraordinary role in a child’s development and assumes the physical risks of pregnancy.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

That assumes an 8% annual stock-market return and 3% annual rent increases.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

If everyone assumes other people are secretly using AI in ways they are not supposed to, you get exactly the Sara/Scott problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Finnick finally gives up and assumes the hunched position he took in the arena when the jabberjays attacked.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Others worried the shocks were compounding and could no longer be assumed to pass on their own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

For years, many assumed they had stumbled upon a government checkpoint, and that the abduction of the journalist had been opportunistic.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Many observers, including Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, assumed he would never return to the Senate.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

Details are still being worked out,, but the study assumed a transferable credit with a minimum rate of 20% on qualified spending for U.S. resident labor — broadly what industry groups have supported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

A second door opened into another dimly lit room, and “mourners”—actors without masks who Molly assumed were Anat’s classmates—filed in, a few carrying tiny plates with rugelach, others wailing perhaps too theatrically into handkerchiefs.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Those moves would help boost the Lakers’ valuation to at least $30 billion in a decade, the buyer group said, assuming that TV and streaming rights double in value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Finally assuming the role of music director, the conductor opened the orchestra’s season with a passionately played program that included John Adams’s work in memory of 9/11.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

And assuming collectors can get their car to an appropriate testing location, there’s no promise it will pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

A club statement said there will be "no changes to the day-to-day operations, leadership or strategy at the club" as a result of Clearlake assuming full control.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

“Dogs are born knowing how to swim,” Benji said, assuming it was true.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty