assumptive

Example Sentences

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“The kind of losses that we grieve over are the ones that disrupt that assumptive world, which can explain feelings of grief about the death of the Queen,” she says.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

“It confronts us with existential truths about life that clash with this system. The more we try to hold on to our assumptive world, the more mired we are in denial of such truths.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2022

I also can't help wishing that "Love, Victor" was bolder in playing with the audience's assumptive gaze.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2020

He went on to speak of the 1950s, “Ozzie and Harriet,” when things seemed newer somehow and assumptive of progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2016

And the judicial kind is itself also distributed under two divisions,—one absolute, and one which takes in something besides as an addition, and which may be called assumptive.

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius