How to Use assumed in a Sentence

assumed

adjective
  • The stronger the wind, the worse the assumed damage to the reef.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
  • My plan was to use an assumed name but even this doesn't placate him.
    — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
  • My plan was to use an assumed name, but even this doesn't placate him.
    — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The male body, on the other hand, is simply neutral—an assumed state of being.
    — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
  • For the assumed growth to continue, either both of those must hold or new growth engines have to appear.
    — Brad McMillan, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • Providing a service to the public comes with the assumed level of risk.
    — Max Lockie, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Bohr was on his way to Los Alamos and was traveling under an assumed name.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 May 2018
  • Being the assumed carrier of that entire weight would disgust me more than the leering.
    — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2022
  • In the simplest terms, the white gaze can be conceptualized as the assumed white reader.
    — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The assumed owner of the vehicle rushed over to the car and hopped inside as the repo man continued to do his job.
    — Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The length of the holding period and the assumed return on the stock market are less important.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 4 July 2021
  • This serves as an assumed double-revenge game for both Aaron Rodgers and Justin Fields.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Or does that prove that somehow the Somerton man is related to her assumed grandfather?
    — New York Times, 22 May 2021
  • At the end of that movie — which premiered 2½ years ago — Jesse was headed into hiding under an assumed name.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The boss should also know that his assumed control of the racket would be protected by the FSB.
    — Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Lewis had moved from Chicago to New York about three weeks earlier and was living under an assumed name.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The assumed connection to the Revere family helped drive up the price of the items, which were offered in a single lot at auction.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Brown captioned a black-and-white image of himself looking down, presumably at his new son while sharing the assumed birth date, on Thursday.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • One employee in Philadelphia calls the cops on a pair of black men and employees across the nation are kind of assumed to be latent racists.
    — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • His daughter, who arrived in the United States in 1990, lives under an assumed name, as does his wife.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Boone spent eight years on the run before he was found living under an assumed name outside Montreal in 2016.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 21 May 2020
  • Until a sunny summer morning last year, when word came that the man who shot Dan Woolley was living in Texas under an assumed name.
    — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The Facebook page host did not think anything of the photos Walters had sent him and posted the assumed accomplishment on his major page.
    — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024
  • The writer of the letter was James Lewis, a Missouri native who had briefly lived in Chicago under an assumed name.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • His sister recalls that even on the eve of his life-changing X Factor audition, Styles could sing in public only in an assumed voice.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Both Aleksic and Holliday note that the way slurs work — in these stories and in real life — is by carrying an assumed power structure along with them.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Plus, the icing on the baby cake is the middle name of Blues, which is the opposite of the assumed Plum since plum purple was Justin’s signature color as a teen.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2024
  • Some photographers flip this assumed authenticity on its head by reverse-engineering studios and sets to resemble homes.
    — Megan Williams, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Witnessing violence has, unfortunately, become an assumed risk when logging onto the internet.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Getting confronted with gruesome, horrific imagery has, unfortunately, become an assumed risk when logging onto social media.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025

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