In a sentence
Six example sentences with assume, each labelled with its topic.
Never assume the input is valid, because one malformed date field crashed the whole reporting service last quarter.
Technology
Do not assume the chart is current, since the nurse wrote the allergy note on paper that never reached the file.
Medicine
The model assumed rents would keep rising, and nobody checked that figure until the vacancy reports arrived in autumn.
Finance
The argument works only if we assume that every event has a cause, which is exactly what the skeptic denies.
Philosophy
Defenders who assume the guard will pass react too late, and the jumper is already in the air.
Basketball
Early astronomers assumed the planets moved in perfect circles, and the data refused to fit for centuries.
Science
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Found in these word lists
Found in 10 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)
- Business English Academic Word List
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- United States Courts glossary
- Nursing Word List
- Medical Academic Word List
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
- Science & Engineering English Corpus list
Each source is a published word list that contains assume. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.