assumption

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A 10-minute review of your withholding and planning assumptions could have the potential to save you thousands of dollars later through better tax-savings strategies.

From MarketWatch

It’s common for companies to use pricing models to value assets that lack market quotes, and this often requires making assumptions.

From The Wall Street Journal

That estimate relied on the assumption that sediment built up at roughly the same rate after the extinction as it did beforehand.

From Science Daily

There is widespread assumption - openly acknowledged by the chancellor in that Times interview today - that if there are huge spikes ministers will act.

From BBC

There’s an assumption that some of the money was allocated in a sloppy way as lenders rushed to put capital to work.

From MarketWatch