assumption
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"There appears to be an assumption that the country will always have enough water for its economic needs. Nothing could be further from the truth."
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
That result challenges a long-standing assumption that microglia established early in development remain in the brain for a person's entire life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
In this Money Talks: Roy Swan joins Elizabeth Spiers to turn the assumption of a zero-sum economy on its head.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
The assumption is that elected officials facing voters will always prefer lower rates than may be warranted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“The assumption with the large earthquake,” Malone explained, “is that it’s a fracture of the rock … Like if you bend a stick and it breaks, you hear a pop— that’s the earthquake!”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Do not smuggle in assumptions from the past.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
"And that could bring credit risk increasingly into the AI story, particularly for highly leveraged data-centre operators and lenders exposed to projects built on aggressive assumptions about future AI demand," she added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Ask people to scrutinize food companies, labels and regulatory assumptions, and eventually they will scrutinize the regulators, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Jefferies cuts its estimated probability of success to 5% from 25% and reduces peak sales assumptions for the drug candidate by 50%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
I no more can guess the assumptions that go along with glittering sneakers than a child in a dragon costume knows what real dragons would make of the color of her scales.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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