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Assumed in sentence

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So I always assumed that agreeable people were givers and disagreeable people were takers.
In my efforts to explain this to others, one conversation led to the Venus of Willendorf, a Paleolithic figurine scholars assumed was a goddess of love and beauty, hence the name Venus.
They also assumed that she was meant to be held or placed lying down because her tiny feet don't allow her to be freestanding.
For this reason, it was assumed that she was a representation of fertility and not a portrait of a person.
You could tell that things had really changed when, six years later, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial that assumed you knew what VisiCalc was and maybe even were using it.
What I realized is that everything I had assumed about looted sites had been proven wrong.
How many times have we just assumed we know exactly the right thing that's going to help someone or something without actually asking them first?
She had forgotten to make that clear earlier because she assumed it was ... obvious.
I assumed, because of my privileged upbringing and my Seven Sister education, that she would ask me to manage the restaurant.
At the time, we all assumed that these receptors were only found in the nose.
I got invited to an exclusive resort to deliver a talk about the digital future to what I assumed would be a couple of hundred tech executives.
I didn't understand why Lauran would choose to have them participate in that way, and I assumed it wasn't a choice that the boys made for themselves.
Under the Khmer Rouge, who took over Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, we would all be dead now, targeted because of our assumed privilege.
Meanwhile, Marcus Licinius Crassus had assumed control of the war.
He had assumed full ownership of this project and was not willing to relinquish it, even to me, its author.
He shared credit with ease, assumed responsibility for the failure of his subordinates, constantly acknowledged his errors and learned from his mistakes.
In all of my calculations, I had assumed there was a planet with a separate disk around it.
I assumed he was talking about his plethora of cousins, and he was talking about them, but also about our Syrian family.
And each one of you assumed that if dogs on leashes came more quickly to your mind, then dogs on leashes are more probable.
But during this time, Napoleon Bonaparte had assumed power in France, and made it his mission to restore slavery and French authority throughout the empire.
They remembered that every shot that's taken, they assumed would be missed.
I had assumed that successful people didn't feel like frauds, and I now know that the opposite is more likely to be true.
And so when Pluto was discovered in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory, everybody assumed that it must be the planet that Lowell had predicted.
Scientists were generally baffled and they assumed it must just be a fluke and some bad observations.
You see, I always assumed I would go into space, because I followed all of this.
Friends, neighbors, family, my community: I just assumed it would always be there.
Land, trees, marsh, bayous: I just assumed that it would be there as it had been for thousands of years.
So they assumed this must be, you know, the brain's orgasmatron.
She assumed that I did not know how to use a stove.
The great success story of India, a country that so many learned scholars and journalists assumed would disintegrate, in the '50s and '60s, is that it managed to maintain consensus on how to survive without consensus.
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