common assumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommonandassumption
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common
adjective
uk/ˈkɒm.ən/us/ˈkɑː.mən/
the same in a lot of places or for a lot ...
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assumption
noun
uk/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition ofcommonandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Acommonassumptionis that they are not.
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Thecommonassumptionthat if there is national deforestation, then there is a felt need to plant trees, needs to be reexamined.
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Thecommonassumptionmade by the aforementioned authors in their theory is that the lattice of line vortices is infinite.
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It also contests thecommonassumptionthat these two aspects of representation are not in conflict.
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Furthermore, thecommonassumptionthat consistency per se is always better has been challenged by these findings.
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Although there is acommonassumptionthat older people must ' feel old ', the informants describe themselves as not old because they do not feel old.
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The results refute thecommonassumptionthat vasectomy can be accepted only by persons from a high cultural or socio-economic level.
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The mostcommonassumptionregarding the development of phonemic categories is that as the child's lexicon grows, phonemic representation develops.
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Acommonassumptionrequired by the parametric tests of statistical significance used in logistic regression, is the hypothesis of independence between observations.
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She seems to make thecommonassumptionthat heteroerotics constitute the only possible desires of the text.
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This is because traditional adaptive control strategies have acommonassumptionthat the uncertain parameters should be constant or slowly time varying.
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It is worth noting that thecommonassumptionthat the mainstream is always consistent and stagnant is wide of the mark.
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This latter idea seems to run counter to thecommonassumptionthat creativity is a manifestation of intelligent behavior.
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Acommonassumption, which we adopt, is that proteins, at least simple ones, came first.
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But the morecommonassumptiondid not have to confront that issue.
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Note that this is exactly the opposite of thecommonassumption.
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Although fuel consumption was very high, thecommonassumptionthat the cement industry was extremely energy-intensive has to be qualified.
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This is a verycommonassumptiongiven how small the annuity market is in practice.
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