Assumption
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634 examples of Assumption in a sentence
The first was an
assumption
about the size of the Earth's orbit.
You had to live, did live, from habit that became instinct, in the
assumption
that every sound you made was overheard and except in darkness every movement scrutinized."
There's a general
assumption
that fluctuations in reproductive hormones cause extreme emotions and that the great majority of women are affected by this.
Functioning law enforcement for us is just a total
assumption.
In fact, nothing expresses that
assumption
more clearly than three simple numbers: 9-1-1, which, of course, is the number for the emergency police operator here in Canada and in the United States, where the average response time to a police 911 emergency call is about 10 minutes.
Now, the typical
assumption
is that if someone cheats, either there's something wrong in your relationship or wrong with you.
I think we've simply made a false
assumption.
Today, I'd like tell you what that
assumption
is, why it's false, and how to fix it.
But here's the point: Once we let go of our massively intuitive but massively false
assumption
about the nature of reality, it opens up new ways to think about life's greatest mystery.
CA: So this obsession with the search for Goldilocks planets in exactly the right place with water and whatever, that's a very parochial assumption, perhaps.
Not to mention, at this time, there was a general
assumption
that men and women were alike in every way, apart from their reproductive organs and sex hormones.
Why is that the
assumption?
Using this assumption, he was able to explain some properties of light.
But your
assumption
that sadness has an external cause outside the self is a relatively new idea.
But, what if the problem is not with the techniques, but the underlying
assumption
that lying spurs physiological changes?
Why? I've been told it's based on an
assumption
that African-Americans have more muscle mass than people of other races.
And I always operate on the
assumption
that the next great picture that will effect change is right around the corner, behind the next coral head, inside the next lagoon or possibly, in the one after it.
We tend to have a collective
assumption
that refugees are an inevitable cost or burden to society.
Another possibility is following the simple
assumption
that when two words are related, they tend to appear in the same sentences, in the same paragraphs, in the same documents, more often than would be expected just by pure chance.
Let's take a look at that
assumption
for just one moment, because you see there has been a boom in the small-arms trade since the start of the War on Terror.
Today's regulations and codes were written under the
assumption
that best practices would remain best practices, with incremental updates forever and ever.
Actually, this is a little bit more than an
assumption.
The second
assumption
is that we will keep going.
Fear fills the void at all costs, passing off what you dread for what you know, offering up the worst in place of the ambiguous, substituting
assumption
for reason.
Someone had hurt me and those who I loved, under the
assumption
they wouldn't have to be held to account or recognize the damage they had caused.
But when I tell people about these appalling statistics, I'm usually met with an
assumption
that it's about either poverty or lack of access to care.
What I'm saying is we have to rethink our base
assumption
about only looking at the future in one way, only looking at it through the dominant lens.
And a guard at the entrance stopped me and asked me annoying questions, because their automatic
assumption
is that a Nigerian female walking into a hotel alone is a sex worker.
If you don't tell anyone, I'm going to tell you I'm not, but I never let that
assumption
go away.
But the underlying
assumption
is the same: there's something wrong with them.
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