Assume in sentence

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And so when 17 students and faculty die at my school, no one in this chain will assume responsibility.

That's lifetimes of women dealing with men who assume they know better for us than we know for ourselves, being the property of husbands, landowners, and having old, white men tell us the fate of our lady parts; lifetimes of having our bodies used for love and objects of desire, instead of bodies that we get to wield and use as we choose; lifetimes of knowing that whether we play by their rules or not, we still have to tolerate harassment, assault and even worse; lifetimes of our bodies being used as property that can be hit and hurt, manipulated and moved and like objects that are not deserving of respect; lifetimes of not being able to express the anger of our bodies.

A lot of people assume those targeted Muslims only live in the Middle East, but a lot of those banned people are Africans.

Something to do with words, I assume.

And that's what these are for, in case you've been wondering, because most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind, but actually it's quite different from that.

Now let's assume you go on holiday.

Let's assume you go to the Caribbean, or you might go to Mexico.

And let's assume you're bitten by a mosquito that's carrying that virus.

And you can actually use it for our monkeys to either interact with them, or you can train them to assume in a virtual world the first-person perspective of that avatar and use her brain activity to control the movements of the avatar's arms or legs.

And yet, there it is, so you assume there's been some kind of hiccup.

This is the time when we all assume that everything somehow in terms of writing was perfect because the people on "Downton Abbey" are articulate, or something like that.

We can assume the detective thinks the individual is dead.

Also on the web, when you're filling in one of these forms like your addresses, I assume you know that you can hit the Tab key to jump from box to box to box.

Well, the reality is, if you look at the data, Americans aren't as hyper-mobile as people sometimes assume.

Don't assume the natural choice is your spouse or child.

When we use the word "architect" or "designer," what we usually mean is a professional, someone who gets paid, and we tend to assume that it's those professionals who are going to be the ones to help us solve the really big, systemic design challenges that we face like climate change, urbanization and social inequality.

If we assume fair wages, which means not slave labor, and we remove the subsidies from our calculation, the map turns into this.

Now, Westerners always assume that multi-party election with universal suffrage is the only source of political legitimacy.

Economists often assume that markets are inert, that they do not touch or taint the goods they exchange.

Market exchange, they assume, doesn't change the meaning or value of the goods being exchanged.

Now, if you assume that this greater cross wiring and concepts are also in different parts of the brain, then it's going to create a greater propensity towards metaphorical thinking and creativity in people with synesthesia.

Also, it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, that people assume I represent something genuinely Indian when I wear it, because that's not how I feel.

But I am going to stick with it, because contrary to what we might usually assume, imitating somebody can reveal something unique.

I don't know what cat gut is, but let's assume it's formidable.

If we assume that the narcos only have access to the wholesale part, which we know is false, that still leaves you with yearly revenues of anywhere between 15 billion and 60 billion dollars.

We're also going to need to know how reflective the surface of 'Oumuamua is, and we don't have any clue, but it's reasonable to assume it's very similar to small asteroids and comets in our solar system, or in technical terms, something between the reflectivity of charcoal and wet sand.

We assume women can't, and that's ridiculous, because the great majority of women everywhere in the world, including the United States, work full time and have children.

So we don't have to assume these principles as separate metaphysical postulates.

But let's assume that these people really believe this.

Given this rich artistic environment, you'd assume that I would have been compelled to go into the family business, but no.

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