assumptions

Example Sentences

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For lawyers, making assumptions about potential jurors is an important part of trial strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The “long-standing agreements and planning assumptions ... date back more than a decade,” NV Energy said in a May 14 statement.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

"We now have a better understanding of the basic assumptions we can make, as well as stronger techniques for translating these assumptions into properties of scattering amplitudes and other observables."

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Whatever that number is, it’s based on too many assumptions to be actionable, Panko said.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

In those two years she challenged many assumptions I had taken for granted.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose