assumption

In a sentence

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

• The whole forecast rests on one assumption, that wages keep rising, and every number collapses if that stops being true.

  Economics

• Their pitch deck buried an assumption that every trial user would pay, and the first quarter of data disproved it.

  Startups

• The proof begins from an assumption that the gas stays at constant temperature, which the lab notes never actually verified.

  Science

• Every ethical system rests on at least one assumption it cannot prove, and the honest ones name it on page one.

  Philosophy

• The retirement plan hides an assumption that markets return eight percent a year, and the last decade delivered barely half.

  Finance

• The prosecution's case rested on the assumption that the gate was locked, and the caretaker's diary showed it never was.

  Law

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More Academic words

• varied
• circumstance
• statistic
• potentially
• finances
• publication
• transmitting
• adjustment
• contracted
• adjacent
• initiate
• legitimate