How to Use assumption in a Sentence

assumption

noun

• I'm telling you our arrival time on the assumption that you will check to see whether or not our flight is on time before you come to the airport.
• Her plan is based on the underlying assumption that the economy will improve in the near future.
• I made the assumption that he was coming, so I was surprised when he didn't show up.
• He will come home tomorrow. At least, that's my assumption.
• Many scientific assumptions about Mars were wrong.
• Too often people make assumptions based on their own beliefs and don’t take the time to be curious.
  — Pioneer Press Elections Team, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2024
• My first assumption on the hunt with Walz was that somebody had screwed up, failing to place the birds in the pre-planned locations.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
• The underlying assumption is that the brain processes the world and our experience of it through a progression of words.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
• Yes, both of my parents attended university and a private school upbringing made this pretty much an assumption.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 23 Oct. 2024
• People added that the compensation scheme is based on the assumption that share value will appreciate 15% every year.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
• But Shyamalan clearly invites us to question that assumption, as horrific calamities, seen on the cabin TV, start to pile up.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• Many believe looted treasures must be sent back where the once came from; many more think that Western museums are the best and safest home for these artifacts, an assumption some scholars have argued against.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
• In addition, any opinions and assumptions expressed herein are made as of the date of this communication and are subject to change and/or withdrawal without notice.
  — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024
• For example, an assumption that the Armada ran out of ammunition has been debunked by the discovery of numerous cannon balls.
  — Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
• The assumption was that the overwhelming majority would be judged to be economic migrants rather than genuine refugees and therefore repatriated to their countries of origin.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2024
• There’s this assumption that what sells best is your best work.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2024
• What is the worst assumption someone has made about you? 12.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 23 Feb. 2023
• DirecTV will pay EchoStar $1 plus the assumption of debt.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
• The assumption was that the parent's action's were racist.
  — Kathryn Muchnick, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2024
• And the assumption these are super rich people on these yachts?
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• That assumption is a key driver behind a big rally in stocks over the past year.
  — Christine Romans, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
• But a study of the historical record reveals the flaws in this assumption.
  — Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• Hayes says that’s based on faulty assumptions about how broadly the tax would apply.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
• Hubris is still the provenance of the arrogant assumption.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• As the zine evolved, one of the things that became more and more important to me was to start wrecking people’s assumptions.
  — Shawn Reynaldo, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
• The 13-year-old is also on the autism spectrum, inviting even more assumptions.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• The team adds that how fingers and thumbs move helps space the way an individual thinks and the assumptions made about the world around us.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• Starting in the 1970s, shelters were built on the assumption that secrecy is safest.
  — Katheryn Houghton, CBS News, 24 May 2023
• Exiting from the pandemic, the assumption might be that Noel’s students should be among the least scathed.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, Fortune, 10 June 2023
• With the late kick time on the East Coast, the assumption was that Colorado would entertain viewers for maybe a half before most of the country turned in for the night.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024