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Six example sentences with assay, each labelled with its topic.
Her memo offered a sober assay of the merger, listing three assumptions the board had never actually tested.
Business
The bank's annual assay of household debt found borrowing steady but concentrated among younger renters in coastal cities.
Economics
Montaigne's essays begin as an assay of his own habits and end by questioning whether anyone knows themselves.
Philosophy
The outgoing minister left a frank assay of the department's state, warning her successor about two contracts already behind schedule.
Politics
The critic's yearly assay of the novel's health found plenty of books and very few readers under thirty.
Literature
Before raising money the founders wrote an honest assay of where the company stood, including the churn they had been hiding.
Startups
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