PREJUDGMENT Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

prejudgment

noun

as in assumption

an attitude, belief, or impression formed in advance of actual experience of something the general public's prejudgment of the accused before the trial had even started

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Recent Examples of prejudgment Goff — who is well known in the state for highway billboards and TV ads often featuring celebrities — is seeking $350,000 through a prejudgment remedy. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026 And an absurd prejudgment that a museum celebrating a presidency could not coexist with an institution also focused on offering art, basketball and a plethora of gathering spaces to a community that has suffered from disinvestment for decades. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026 The bill would also lower New York’s outdated 9% prejudgment interest rate, which currently rewards vulture funds for dragging litigation. — Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026 Still, even in opposing the new bill in Connecticut, one MCA group — the Revenue Based Finance Coalition, which represents funders and brokers — voiced support for the ban on prejudgment remedies. — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026 Macciocchi agreed to pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest of about $404,343 dollars plus a $125,000 dollar civil penalty, and Young agreed to pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest totaling about $575,610 dollars and a $75,000 dollar civil penalty. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026

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Noun

The firm also cut its price target to $11 from $13 and raised its fuel expense assumption for the third quarter to about $207 million.

— Paulina Likos, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
This assumption is oversimplified, and the problem is partly one of accounting.

— Ben Vanpeperstraete, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumption

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Pike didn’t always have such a cogent theory of the power of the body in performance.

— Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
The idea that the absence of private property and systematic inequality automatically removes coercion—which forms the core of the Marxist theory of history—is not proven.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

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