assuming

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Pimco has shaved off 0.3 to 0.4 percentage point its forecast, assuming the conflict winds down quickly, managing director Tiffany Wilding said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

But investors should resist assuming a straight-line recovery.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

So whatever comes to you when your mother passes away — assuming she either does not make a will or makes one that includes her children — will include what remains of your grandmother’s estate.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

And assuming it does, how will it act in the role of the continent's strongman?

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

So had he been wrong in assuming that the large creature now attacking Twitch was a great black-backed gull?

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el