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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of assumes in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of assumes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of assumes in a Sentence

  1. Thomas Jefferson:

    When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property

  2. Primo Levi:

    The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

  3. Lars Feld:

    If you can avoid insolvencies of companies, the banks are safe, but if additional support is required for the banking sector, the government will do it. All of this assumes, however, that the current measures have failed.

  4. Robert Byrd:

    I do question the motives of a deskbound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech.

  5. Trey Gowdy:

    That assumes the report would be critical of [Clinton] and I don’t make that assumption because we’re still in the process of gathering facts.

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