assume
verb (used with object)
to take for granted or without proof.
assumes
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present tense formof assume (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Things start to go awry for Bryan when, during a snowstorm, he is driving to a hospital to deliver a medical package he assumes is a liver or a heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Wall Street widely assumes the Fed will raise interest rates at its meeting on Wednesday, but what investors really want to know is just how high rates will go.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
But occasionally, snobs don’t have a choice, such as when they’re sitting in the dark of a movie theater, where the viewer assumes the role of the spectator.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
First, he assumes that they’re as gullible as he is—that, since he believes the compliments they shovel his way, they’ll believe his shovelings too.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
The traditional historiographical emphasis on the new physics assumes that the mathematization of the world began in the seventeenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
