How to Use assumed in a Sentence

assumed

adjective

• The stronger the wind, the worse the assumed damage to the reef.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
• My plan was to use an assumed name but even this doesn't placate him.
  — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
• My plan was to use an assumed name, but even this doesn't placate him.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2019
• And even with assumed growth, the changes will add $1 trillion to the national debt over 10 years.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2017
• The analysis lays out the real and the assumed fallout.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 6 July 2017
• The assumed cultural norm doesn’t make much room for us.
  — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 28 May 2018
• The male body, on the other hand, is simply neutral—an assumed state of being.
  — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
• The boss should also know that his assumed control of the racket would be protected by the FSB.
  — Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2021
• When put together, the letters spell out April 9th, hence the assumed release date of the album.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 11 Feb. 2021
• Providing a service to the public comes with the assumed level of risk.
  — Max Lockie, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2020
• The length of the holding period and the assumed return on the stock market are less important.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 4 July 2021
• The 13th check can only be issued when a pension fund’s earnings rise above the assumed rate of return.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• His daughter, who arrived in the United States in 1990, lives under an assumed name, as does his wife.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• For the assumed growth to continue, either both of those must hold or new growth engines have to appear.
  — Brad McMillan, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• In the simplest terms, the white gaze can be conceptualized as the assumed white reader.
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• Bohr was on his way to Los Alamos and was traveling under an assumed name.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• The assumed connection to the Revere family helped drive up the price of the items, which were offered in a single lot at auction.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2021
• The writer of the letter was James Lewis, a Missouri native who had briefly lived in Chicago under an assumed name.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
• At the end of that movie — which premiered 2½ years ago — Jesse was headed into hiding under an assumed name.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
• Being the assumed carrier of that entire weight would disgust me more than the leering.
  — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2022
• Lewis had moved from Chicago to New York about three weeks earlier and was living under an assumed name.
  — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• According to legend, Kate checked into the hotel in 1892 under an assumed name and was found dead on the beach five days later.
  — Joe Sills, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Why should the honeymoon—and the assumed romance and joy that accompanies it—have to be relegated to a stage?
  — Marissa Miller, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2017
• Boone spent eight years on the run before he was found living under an assumed name outside Montreal in 2016.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 21 May 2020
• One employee in Philadelphia calls the cops on a pair of black men and employees across the nation are kind of assumed to be latent racists.
  — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• Or does that prove that somehow the Somerton man is related to her assumed grandfather?
  — New York Times, 22 May 2021
• Until a sunny summer morning last year, when word came that the man who shot Dan Woolley was living in Texas under an assumed name.
  — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2020
• The big question in Washington is whether the NRA point of view and the assumed views of its members matter to the bipartisan group of senators engaged in the umpteenth round of talks on the topic of guns.
  — Jessie Dimartino, ABC News, 27 May 2022
• The police also found designer clothes and expensive perfumes in his last hide-out, an apartment in southwestern Sicily where Mr. Messina Denaro had been living for several years under an assumed name.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• Shaw and Nixon’s script leans heavily on your assumed awareness of what would soon happen when Spielberg’s event movies devour the New Hollywood experimentation of the 1970s and lead us right to our current cinematic universe.
  — Vulture, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024