assumption

But that assumption took a hit one night in 2018 after a violent hailstorm.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

New research led by Stanford Medicine challenges that basic assumption, suggesting that what we call the brain is actually built from two distinct systems that arose separately over hundreds of millions of years of evolution.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

“I think the assumption that only a few companies can be at the frontier may not look so true a year from now,” Goertzel said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

“We still forecast further cuts before the end of the year, based on the assumption that local developments in Hungary could open the door to two more 25 basis-point moves.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

One experiment found people had warmer, more engaged interactions with robots that made social flubs, including “judgmental mistakes, wrong assumptions, expressing tiredness or boredom, or getting overexcited.”

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

Even in our longest relationships, we can still harbor assumptions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Monday’s victory — imperfect but convincing — reinforced those assumptions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Perpetual said its board still believed the proposal undervalued the company, and flagged several assumptions by Windflower that it said raised unacceptable risks over whether the transaction would succeed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis