Example Sentences

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Come Tuesday morning, some other old and bad video will have assumed the least-popular mantle, and “Dinner” will fade into even greater obscurity.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2018

Of the nearly 5,000 people who “liked” the post, at least some will have assumed Atkinson’s words to be directed against Islam.

From Time • Nov. 6, 2014

The developing world, meanwhile, will work to bridge the food gap by embracing the promise of biotechnology which the middle classes in the developed world will have assumed that they had the luxury to reject.

From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2011

A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- "citizen of the world" -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an hour's time he will have assumed the Government of India.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Benson, Arthur Christopher