- present tense form of assume (3rd person singular).
assumes
Example Sentences
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It assumes that the same genetic mechanism would still have been at work nearly 200,000 years later, at the time of the final contacts between Sapiens and Neanderthals.
From Science Daily • Jul. 7, 2026
This example assumes your monthly contributions remain fixed and do not increase with inflation.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 3, 2026
Critically, that 2050 figure assumes a dirty grid; a clean one, like the one France has built, makes the problem largely disappear.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
Increasingly, it is why anyone assumes they would choose differently.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model, right back to the big bang.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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