assumption
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And I just don’t want anything lost in translation or the assumption game.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
For years, the common assumption has been simple: eating less fat may help lower cancer risk.
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
“They use the words ‘credit repair,’ but what’s really happening here is a negative option that extracts fees from people with the assumption that most people wanted this.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
But if AI can collate and analyze data to capture individual preferences at scale we may no longer need the assumption of the rational actor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
It brought together the old revolutionary rhetoric, even deploying some familiar Jeffersonian language, with all the oppositional energy of the Whig tradition, then hurled it at assumption as the new incarnation of foreign domination.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing assumption
Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 1-10
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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