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Example sentences for: assumption

How can you use “assumption” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Our assumption about the allocation of electricity reductions across power plants could have contributed a downward bias, with an availability-based allocation increasing benefits to 510 fewer deaths per year and a capacity-based allocation increasing benefits to 720 fewer deaths per year.
This normalization works on the assumption that the summed expression level of all genes on the array is constant across experiments, and that differences in expression levels between arrays can be corrected by array-specific scaling factors.
The assumption, of course, is that an executive who receives a gift like this will be more likely to direct his company's business toward the investment bank that proffered the shares.
Dworkin reduces the ontological status of the fetus to an issue of ownership by calling it "her" fetus, using an assumption central to the validation of the master-slave relationship.
Before It's Too Late updates and exploits this cultural assumption, letting the viewer play with the horror of sex and death without really confronting it.