assumes

Example Sentences

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“Everybody assumes money is the most important thing, that you can quote-unquote ‘buy an election’ with all that money,” said Jason McDaniel, an associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

But if she, a towering scholar of Yiddish literature, assumes the pose of a little old lady, don’t be fooled.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The new risk is different and, in some ways, harder to manage: It assumes that civilian power infrastructure becomes a military asset, a hostage or a weapon simply by existing in a conflict zone.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

And that assumes a normalization of supplies from June.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

So in the end our work became generally accepted and nowadays nearly everyone assumes that the universe started with a big bang singularity.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking