- present tense form of assume (3rd person singular).
assumes
Example Sentences
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Where I lose patience, though, is when a director assumes the audience doesn’t have a collective brain cell among them and attempts to get away with serving action fans a ration of gruel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
And that assumes you have the stomach to buy when the headlines are screaming that things are about to get worse.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
“I’m a regular person, like you,” Hal says, gazing directly through the fourth wall at the tiny people he assumes are worshipping him from afar.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
“It hurts the hawks more than it hurts the doves,” said Neil Dutta of Renaissance Macro, who assumes that upcoming meetings will be roughly a coin flip because the inflation data won’t be conclusive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
He assumes that the seller has some information about the car that he, the buyer, does not have—and the seller is punished for this assumed information.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
