assuming

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At the time, Todd Blanche still headed the office, before assuming the role of acting attorney general in April.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Behren, who co-manages the $2.5 billion fund, is assuming a closing date in October—to be conservative—and calculates that Warner Bros. stock offers a 30%-plus annualized return to that date.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

For evolutionary science, they show why we must check our closest relatives before assuming a specific, or unique, cultural explanation.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Investors often make the mistake of assuming that they should “buy low and sell high,” but that can be too risky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 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