How to Use assumption in a Sentence

assumption

noun

• I'm telling you our arrival time on the assumption that you will check to see whether or not our flight is on time before you come to the airport.
• Her plan is based on the underlying assumption that the economy will improve in the near future.
• I made the assumption that he was coming, so I was surprised when he didn't show up.
• He will come home tomorrow. At least, that's my assumption.
• Many scientific assumptions about Mars were wrong.
• Over the past year of war, a selective reading of the Gulf states’ actions may have played into this assumption.
  — Maria Fantappie, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2024
• Sports discussions, for instance, have long been dominated by assumptions that focus on men's leagues or teams by default.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
• There’s this assumption that what sells best is your best work.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2024
• What is the worst assumption someone has made about you? 12.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 23 Feb. 2023
• DirecTV will pay EchoStar $1 plus the assumption of debt.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
• The assumption was that the parent's action's were racist.
  — Kathryn Muchnick, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2024
• And the assumption these are super rich people on these yachts?
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• That assumption is a key driver behind a big rally in stocks over the past year.
  — Christine Romans, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
• But a study of the historical record reveals the flaws in this assumption.
  — Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• Hayes says that’s based on faulty assumptions about how broadly the tax would apply.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
• My first assumption on the hunt with Walz was that somebody had screwed up, failing to place the birds in the pre-planned locations.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
• Hubris is still the provenance of the arrogant assumption.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• As the zine evolved, one of the things that became more and more important to me was to start wrecking people’s assumptions.
  — Shawn Reynaldo, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
• The 13-year-old is also on the autism spectrum, inviting even more assumptions.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• The team adds that how fingers and thumbs move helps space the way an individual thinks and the assumptions made about the world around us.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• Starting in the 1970s, shelters were built on the assumption that secrecy is safest.
  — Katheryn Houghton, CBS News, 24 May 2023
• Exiting from the pandemic, the assumption might be that Noel’s students should be among the least scathed.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, Fortune, 10 June 2023
• There is, right now, this odd assumption that this is what keeps people watching.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2023
• With the late kick time on the East Coast, the assumption was that Colorado would entertain viewers for maybe a half before most of the country turned in for the night.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Those sorts of layers help imply the past and allow the audience to make assumptions about what that would mean for the future.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• The apparent assumption is that the world speaks English.
  — Rosemary Salomone, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
• The assumption was the Ravens were going to pick a cornerback here no matter what, and some good ones fell into their lap.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2023
• The fact that she was portrayed being sung to by the main character buttressed this assumption.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2023
• This option is also referred to as a lease takeover or assumption.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 20 July 2023
• The problem with this kind of back-of-the-envelope math is that Musk’s assumptions can be off by orders of magnitude.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024