- present tense form of assume (3rd person singular).
assumes
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Analyst Daniel Roden now assumes Deep Yellow proceeds with Tumas in June 2027, with first ore produced in October 2029.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The target assumes a multiple of about 19 times estimated earnings per share for fiscal 2027, which ends in August.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
The model assumes that the bird needs the current climate set-up that exists in alpine meadows in the future too, a reasonable but not certain assumption.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
He assumes that, these days, the public goes to see movies or plays, watches television, or reads books either to avoid this dismal reality or absolve themselves from it.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
This is the fact that heptachlor, after a short period in the tissues of animals or plants or in the soil, assumes a considerably more toxic form known as heptachlor epoxide.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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