assumption
Example Sentences
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“At this point our assumption is this is still a positioning unwind, not a regime change, but we don’t think it has fully run its course,” writes Jonathan Krinsky, BTIG’s chief market technician.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
While their investigation continues, the senior staff member said he was operating on the precautionary assumption that four categories of information had been accessed:
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
There was no comparison with a national leader like Franklin Roosevelt or, the unspoken assumption, Churchill himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
“They use the words ‘credit repair,’ but what’s really happening here is a negative option that extracts fees from people with the assumption that most people wanted this.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
Again, the assumption was that God had given us eyes that were, when healthy, quite good enough for our purposes.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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