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.
• The assumption here is that Apple would equip the handset with the A16 chip.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Nov. 2022
• 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
• And under the assumption that the island of Themyscira is in the Middle East, Gal did a screen test.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
• The data will counter any assumptions based on age or gender that may arise.
  — Natalie Wu, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Okamoto is also working on the assumption that your guest brought in a gun.
  — Lizzy Acker, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Two, this is all under the assumption no one transfers, which is never a lock.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Humans will glance at another human and make a broad assumption about the emotional state of that person by merely observing their face.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
• This archetype is essential in a world where assumptions often go unchallenged, stifling creativity and growth.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025