- present tense form of assess (3rd person singular).
assesses
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BBC Sport assesses a chaotic night in central London.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
The company has a formula that assesses how much of a credit risk each of us poses, and it licenses it to the big three credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Identifying those signals could help researchers better understand how wildlife assesses potential threats in environments shared with humans.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
“The U.S. assesses that the Soviet program was absorbed, not dismantled, by the Russian Federation, and that the program has continued and evolved.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He assesses them with his shrewd, twinkly, ironic little eyes and calls them “sir,” as if they’re his graduate students.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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