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assumption

noun as in assuming possession, power

noun as in arrogance

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Example Sentences

The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

“It was just another assumption based on a paradigm that marginalizes non-heterosexual people,” he writes.

It is a reasonable assumption, considering his roots in the Republican Party, in the Marines, and his proud Scots-Irish roots.

The way I film is based on the assumption that the audience is as smart and dumb as I am.

And that appears to have been their operating assumption when the 43 student teachers went missing.

Oddly enough this assumption—the most warrantable of the lot—was the earliest to fall under disrepute.

Hilda's assumption that the ageing woman had telegraphed for her on inadequate grounds had proved to be quite wrong.

Remember that you asked me to answer on the assumption that you had adequate forces at your disposal, and I did so.

Baroudi accepted all these attentions with a magnificent indifference that had in it nothing of assumption.

The application of this text to the legend of the Assumption is obvious, and occupied the first division of the discourse.

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On this page you'll find 138 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assumption, such as: acceptance, belief, expectation, guess, hunch, and hypothesis.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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