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    assuming


    1. But two witnesses are a must (assuming that they too won't be killed in action or go under)


    2. "Assuming you wish to help of course


    3. He nodded vigorously, assuming that this would provide the necessary proof


    4. The thug, and I was assuming this was Sammy the Shark, would have cut a ruggedly stylish figure except for the filthy looking street tattoos all over his arms and creeping up the visible side of his face to the left temple


    5. "We are assuming that we will need to use coercion to convert the natives, is there no chance the message alone might be enough?"


    6. I heard odd scufflings and the opening and closing of doors, assuming that it was my guards moving about my new and as yet undiscovered home


    7. I tried to rationalise my way through the long days, assuming that it must be far too risky for my fellow prisoners to communicate every day


    8. That being the case, and assuming it was nothing to do with the JJ issue – after all, why would anyone bother with such a personal thing? – it had to be something to do with her job …


    9. They knew Alan intended to reach this city, but they couldn't manufacture enough probes to watch the piers, assuming he would get here across these docks


    10. But leaving that aside, the journey to Minca will take several weeks, I should think, and assuming that I retrieve that Element and return safely, I shall have a long journey across Europe to get to the last touching place … if I don’t get going on that fairly quickly, the winter will take hold and I shall not be able to go until the spring

    11. ‘No …’ he conceded ‘Also, they can’t know which order you are intending to retrieve them … the Ercolano episode may just have been them assuming you would act because the volcano was near to eruption


    12. “need I remind you what it said?” She stood, assuming her role as leader, “Never again will a world die because of us


    13. Rather than assuming it is related to you and leaping to negative conclusions about your promotion, you could say to yourself, “He"s probably just stressed about a deadline or other problem


    14. "Assuming the one doing the encapsulating has perfect knowledge of the universe or universes he is simulating


    15. His wife looked at him sternly, crossing her arms and assuming


    16. ' Mandy followed her glance and was about to boast of her recent tour in the new bungalows, anxious to to share her experience with some friendly ear; when the woman remarked snidely, “I can't see where they get off, putting on airs and assuming they can just buy a station in the community that's so obviously above their rank or right place!”


    17. When the mortuary technician found him on his knees in the mortuary’s ante-room, he tried to help, making a sustained but weary effort to persuade Billy to sit down and have a cup of tea, assuming that he was related to the girl on the trolley, but there were no handles by which he could get a hold of the flaking singer


    18. She knew from his old pictures that he had looked like a very old man for many centuries, not assuming his present appearance til the 40th century


    19. ‘So, assuming that she stays in this condition – what options are there?’ he asked, looking directly at the doctor standing beside him


    20. “I wonder if this is a case where we can make progress by assuming lie minimization?” Shaney asked

    21. Assuming a fierce face, with tea towel in hand, I storm into the kitchen to face my assailant


    22. Who’s to say how long each of us has to spend here, in the physical world? We go along assuming we have three score years and ten, or nearer four score and ten these days, and consider ourselves short changed if a lifespan is anything less


    23. I explain: someone says something to you assuming you will understand exactly what he has in mind


    24. “You’re assuming he was raped


    25. of the city, assuming that this is an honest


    26. Perfect awareness—having passed the swell of time, I remain in history—looked at as an ass for assuming To communicate what I might—repressing some saving Grace from myself, not knowing if I deserve it—“I would Have it as it is, rather than not have it at all?”—Should A saving grace be given to thieves, tress-passers, Law-breakers—a solution is pain reduction, and life sustenance, Not pride games and social repression—the endorphins Replete of all respect find endurance through pompous Wanderings of the ego in control—the ego who would Take the blame and ends up being the only one to know Its great reward—to hide this scar, to pretend it did not 68


    27. on your side, the faster things can move, that is, assuming they are


    28. give me some money, assuming that I no


    29. His mistake lays in assuming that Romania could


    30. with someone who has the technical skills (assuming you do not)

    31. in assuming that? But first the bandits, and now this! I could hear


    32. twenty year old murderer for the next 50 years (assuming his life span to be


    33. But she could pick at it as she made her way back down the ridge to the cave, assuming and hoping that Mercer had limped his way into it by now


    34. “You know, you really have a bad habit of assuming things, especially about me


    35. A few soldiers rushed to come to the stranger’s aid, assuming he had been a victim of highwaymen or wild animals


    36. "Are you okay?" I shouted, assuming they were uninfected


    37. So, does that mean the remaining seven billion people on Earth are assuming unimportant or insignificant roles? Obviously not, because our incarnation here grants us an opportunity to perform a role, which helps complete the mosaic of life on this planet


    38. shuttles assuming they were on his side


    39. Even given the wonders of micro-surgery, if it was a couple of weeks before she received proper medical attention then most of her foot would already be dead, assuming she survived that long herself


    40. Assuming we can get there and seal the door before the fuel ignites, we should be quite safe in there

    41. That’s assuming he took this crazy trail in the first place


    42. In India, their principal settlements or Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta, which had before been altogether independent of one another, were subjected to a governor-general, assisted by a council of four assessors, parliament assuming to itself the first nomination of this governor and council, who were to reside at Calcutta ; that city having now become, what Madras was before, the most important of the English settlements in India


    43. There had been no further sign of the Elusiver, no word of leaving, assuming it really had visited


    44. lived a life without worry, always assuming


    45. One would be entering speculative territory by assuming that the Bible should be interpreted differently


    46. He picked it up, and while he was close to the door he quietly fitted the door chain into its slot, just in case Ronnie decided to get in, assuming he wasn't


    47. Assuming that these layers would have had inconsistencies and that they were not perfectly smooth and spherical, some parts of the inner and outer rock layers may at some point have come into contact with each other


    48. ' He buckled his belt, assuming a Cowboy drawl


    49. far by assuming the laity is too busy or spiritually


    50. anything else and I’m assuming that other than my














































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    Synonyms for "assuming"

    assuming assumptive presumptuous conjecture surmise presupposition assumption presumption hypothesis

    "assuming" definitions

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