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How to use the word assumed in a Sentence?

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Since last summer military intelligence generals assumed a more prominent role as it dawned on Putin it was not a ‘special operation’ anymore but a conventional war, unfortunately, it means Putin’s readying the country for a long conventional war.

Andrei Soldatov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everybody assumed that China would be all in with Russia in Ukraine. They’re not all in, as a matter of fact I called him this summer to say, this is not a threat, just an observation: Look what’s happened to Russia. Six hundred American corporations have pulled out of Russia, from McDonald’s to Exxon. And I said, ‘You’ve told me all along that the reason why you need a relationship with the United States and Europe is so they invest in China.’ I said, ‘Who is gonna invest in China if you engage in the same kind of deal? You’ll notice there’s not been much going on there.’.

Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There wasn’t any follow-up from Colorado after this. I believe they assumed she would seek care at Stanford.

Mark Catlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I assumed she did her homework. I always do my homework and didn’t. Shame on me. he was after me to become a big donor…he was such a fraud.

Kristin Bianco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I kind of assumed he has made up about going to Baruch and NYU, but then I thought, well maybe I was wrong, you know, after the election because I’m sure the DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) and RNC (Republican National Committee) would’ve investigated him and at least his opponent would have done some opp (opposition) research.

Gregory Morey-Parker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To be honest, you know, Elon Musk is really rich, right ? I had assumed he would spend money on hiring people to build some sophisticated tool or methods by himself.

Kaicheng Yang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Kate has been an incredibly valuable resource to not only me, but to our entire hockey operations leadership staff, particularly over the past three years, as part of key hockey decisions, this promotion is reflective of the duties and responsibilities that Kate has assumed within our organization during that time.

General Manager Tom Fitzgerald

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Markets have naively assumed that China was one and done with Beijing and Shanghai, covid-zero is going nowhere in China, and nor is the virus. Thus, the chances of extended restrictions returning, with the ensuing drop in China's economic activity, remain as high as ever.

Jeffrey Halley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I realized it was a tremendously huge fish, i didn’t know what kind of fish it was. I assumed it was a carp or catfish.

Cassady Douglas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When Boko Haram fighters assumed office, the North-East was the major security problem Boko Haram fighters inherited in 2015, but Boko Haram fighters have been able to make people understand that you can not kill people and shout' Allahu Akbar,'.

Muhammadu Buhari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin might have assumed he would be believed when he claimed his troops were simply conducting exercises and had begun to head home. Biden and his aides responded with more transparency, reporting that Putin was actually adding to his potential invasion force, not subtracting from it, contrast all of this with what possibly, or probably, would have happened had Trump still been in office.

Eugene Robinson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Despite being very conservative, when I joined the Carroll ISD [Independent School District] Diversity Council, they assumed I was a liberal because I’m Hispanic, what I saw shocked me. The left’s hateful ideologies were being taught to our children. I raised my voice, sounded the alarm, and joined fellow parents in fighting back.

Victor Avila

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From an academic perspective it basically assumes its conclusion, there’s no reason to do research when you’ve already assumed that everything is driven by this one particular thing. They assume everything is driven by racism so you go back and figure out how things are driven by racism and that’s not actual research. It’s not falsifiable. It has no scientific basis.

Finance Dr. Richard Lowery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Oftentimes, many people who were incorrectly assumed to have been released for whatever reason were actually released because they bailed out of custody based on money bail, and we have seen that in some of the follow-home robberies…defendants bailed out on exorbitant amounts of bail and hundreds of thousands of dollars [beforehand].

Alex Bastian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He told me later, ’I just assumed they forgot about me, and yet he wasn’t the only person in that room. There were dozens of people.

Mat Gleason

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After months of not hearing back from anyone, I assumed he was in good hands with a different owner.

Ricardo Rodriguez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Everybody thought she was safe and assumed somebody had seen her, but in reality nobody had seen her for two years.

Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We assumed that it was going to happen rapidly and these people would be protected, we are disappointed that there hasn't been faster action on this.

George Yancopolous

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve always assumed that’s what would happen, that’s what a grand jury investigation is about, so there’s nothing about that, that is surprising if it’s true. I do n’t know anything personally about it. I welcome it. That’s what I’ve always assumed would happen.

Rusty Hardin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's not only what you might be revealing, but what might be assumed, whether it's true or not.

Chris Gilliard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The point is you need to have more than one filter in life or you're going to be very, very confused. I feel great about this decision. The justice system worked … the media [assumed] that … White jurors only vote in a specific way and they grouped in in a bigoted, uniform, bigoted manner. And we know that this isn't true and it shows you how every case is different. Every case is nuanced. Avoid these sweeping generalizations.

Greg Gutfeld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We assumed they were late for a flight, then all of a sudden more people started running down the terminal and were screaming there was a shooter.

Erika Zeidler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the long term, the cooperation( in the coalition) will only work if we rebuild basic trust, it has to be assumed that everything will not go smoothly, that there will be other voices as well.

Alexander Schallenberg

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It's usually assumed that cattle are not capable of controlling defecation or urination.

Jan Langbein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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