assume
Example Sentences
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Despite their advanced mathematics, these theories still assume electrons behave like particles with defined motion.
From Science Daily
The figure assumes that the buyer is making a down payment of about 10% of the home’s sale price.
From MarketWatch
Back-of-the-envelope math calculates you could watch all of them in a little over five years — assuming you never slept.
From Los Angeles Times
The clip features John Krasinski as CIA analyst Jack Ryan asking a packed lecture hall: ‘What would you assume is the most major threat on the world stage?’
Their latest findings suggest that this elusive substance may have been "incredibly hot"-moving at nearly the speed of light-when it first formed, rather than cold and slow as researchers have long assumed.
From Science Daily
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