In a sentence
Six example sentences with granted, each labelled with its topic.
Taking the premise as granted, he built four pages of argument on top of a claim nobody had examined.
Philosophy
The model treats steady population as granted, which is why its thirty-year projections fall apart in shrinking towns.
Economics
Once a belief is held as granted, people stop testing it and start collecting reasons it was correct.
Psychology
For decades the constant's value was taken for granted, and nobody remeasured it until a new instrument made the check cheap.
Science
Investors took the dividend for granted, treating it as a fixed fact, until the board cut it in half one Tuesday.
Finance
The plan treats next year's demand as granted, an assumption buried on page two that nobody in the room questioned.
Business
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