ASSUMES Synonyms: 194 Similar and Opposite Words

assumes

verb

present tense third-person singular of assume

as in accepts

to take to or upon oneself we promised to assume responsibility for any damage to the flower beds caused by the volleyball game in the backyard

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as in says

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof everyone assumed, wrongly, that someone else was bringing dessert

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as in guesses

to form an opinion from little or no evidence as I just assumed it was too late to go out, I didn't think to ask

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as in pretends

to present a false appearance of she assumed an air of nonchalance even though she was wildly ecstatic she was going on the date

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as in employs

to provide with a paying job assumed as partner by the prestigious law firm

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Recent Examples of assumes In our example of the pond, simply comparing the number of possibilities assumes that each stone emits a wave independently. — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 For any executive whose roadmap assumes compute capacity coming online on schedule, that is now a line item. — Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Set in 1930s Germany, the play follows a woman who assumes her dead husband’s identity and lives as Ella/Max as the country changes, including through war and dictatorship. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 There are no solos; Jack Lee, the Nerves’ rhythm guitarist (there’s no lead player), often assumes a supporting role to Peter Case’s bass. — Cary Baker, SPIN, 20 Oct. 2026 The developer’s traffic analysis assumes 20% of project traffic would use the Midas Avenue entrance, which would permit only right turns into and out of the complex. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026 This implicit passivity assumes that technology, rather than people, will determine AI’s impact on work. — Byron Auguste, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 In the novel, likewise, the narrator assumes an almost Homeric guise, comparing current harbor gossip to chatter from the Phoenician, Cretan, Greek, and Roman eras. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 But much of the deleveraging framework, Condon acknowledged, assumes the underlying businesses continue to perform largely in line with their pre-transaction trajectories, making execution incredibly important. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

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That Kushner even managed to secure agrément, whereby a state accepts a foreign ambassador’s nomination, was a little miracle of American hegemony.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Who accepts the remaining risk, and when will it be reviewed?

— Aliasgar Dohadwala, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of accepts

Verb

That the first foreign policy message after the victory went to Moscow, and through a Russian state outlet, says a good deal about where the new government’s instincts lie.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
Because food can be scarce there and people fear theft, individuals will store rice in their dirt-floor homes, Wagner says, allowing close contact with the rats that infest the island.

— Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of says

Verb

Logan Wright, the author of Broken China, guesses that growth is now running at no more than 1% — and may even be zero.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
The system consists of a predictive algorithm that guesses how a robot is broken, along with robotic manipulators that actually take the broken robot apart.

— Kohava Mendelsohn, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of guesses

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Directed by Kim Han-gyul, the film is an adaptation of 2012 Swedish film Cockpit about a pilot who pretends to be his own younger sister after being fired from his job.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2026
Everyone pretends the films were chosen purely on merit, but the slate often reads Hollywood with a lanyard and a conscience.

— Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of pretends

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Our parent company, CRH, employs 1,278 people across 59 locations in 48 North Carolina communities to produce the aggregates, asphalt, masonry products, pipe, and precast solutions that make construction possible.

— Kevin Blackwell, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
And when a trillion-dollar company receives generous tax incentives for a building that employs relatively few permanent workers, local officials are entitled to ask what their constituents are getting.

— Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of employs

Verb

Mary Amiti, Sebastian Heise and David Weinstein looked at who shoulders the cost of the tariffs, examining which part of the tariff reaches consumers through higher prices versus which share of the price hike is due to other factors.

— Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2026
Elordi nearly shoulders the running time but plays his Hig a bit too humbly.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of shoulders

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The decree, which must be converted to law by parliament within 60 days, also automatically presumes that anyone over age 14 is capable of understanding their own actions, unless proven otherwise.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
Homeownership has long been a marker of the American Dream, but this dream presumes autonomy, voice and equitable treatment.

— Stephanie A. Dhuman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

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