Thesaurus results for ASSUMPTION

assumption

noun

as in theory

something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning the widespread assumption that violent entertainment leads to violent behavior in children your argument is faulty because it's based on erroneous assumptions

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as in arrogance

an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims his air of assumption tended to put people off rather quickly

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Recent Examples of assumption Sharp saw one of the biggest early hurdles was getting people to move past the assumption that a cigar-and-jazz crowd would bring problems. —

Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026 And these calculations were completed on the assumption that rates for the money market account will remain constant. —

Matt Richardson, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026 Unfortunately, those assumptions proved correct. —

Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026 Neither assumption is always accurate. —

ArsTechnica, 20 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for assumption

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Noun

In theory, this could be a standard beauty modification, like Ingres tossing a few extra vertebrae into a naked back.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
But the general idea is that there is a lot of stuff in the universe that is not the familiar matter that we are made of, and there are theories in which this stuff is not entirely benign.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 19 Apr. 2026