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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