on/under/with the assumption
idiom
: as though one knows : in the belief
We are operating on/under/with the assumption that the loan will be approved.
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Jiha told lawmakers the funding gap exists because the 2026 fiscal year city spending proposal Adams unveiled last month was crafted with the assumption that this year’s state budget would include at least $1 billion in new migrant crisis funding for the city.
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Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025
Realism starts with the assumption that in world politics, anarchy reigns: no ultimate authority can settle disputes or guarantee restraint.
—Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2025
In 2020, Komargodski and collaborators calculated (opens a new tab) that magnetism will endure in this system up to infinite temperatures, but their math relied on the assumption that probabilities need not add up to exactly 100% — a physical and logical impossibility.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
The conversation also should not start with the assumption that the senior will not accommodate your request or suggestion.
—Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
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Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025
Realism starts with the assumption that in world politics, anarchy reigns: no ultimate authority can settle disputes or guarantee restraint.
—Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2025
In 2020, Komargodski and collaborators calculated (opens a new tab) that magnetism will endure in this system up to infinite temperatures, but their math relied on the assumption that probabilities need not add up to exactly 100% — a physical and logical impossibility.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
The conversation also should not start with the assumption that the senior will not accommodate your request or suggestion.
—Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
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