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adjective

assumed

taken to be true without proof; also, adopted as a false name or identity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with assumed, each labelled with its topic.

  • The pension plan's assumed return of seven percent looked reasonable in 2007 and left a large hole by 2010.

    Economics

  • Every distance in the survey rests on an assumed value for the star's brightness, so one bad guess shifts the whole map.

    Science

  • The spy books a hotel under an assumed name, and the desk clerk never doubts the passport for a second.

    Movies

  • The mortgage calculator uses an assumed interest rate of five percent, and nobody updated it when rates climbed.

    Finance

  • The Bronte sisters published under assumed names, and reviewers spent years guessing whether the authors were men.

    Literature

  • The old drawings list an assumed soil strength, and the engineer refused to add a floor until someone actually tested the ground.

    Architecture

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