All 12 Uses
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The Perfect Game
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- The McAllen team's boys boasted to each other how they couldn't wait to get up and cream a pitch, assuming Angel could throw a single strike.
Chpt 2.13 *assuming = believed (without really knowing)
- Just then, the bells of the Cathedral of the Assumption on Fifth Street rang out.
Chpt 2.18 *assumption = the act of taking someone up into heaven
- I assumed it was because I was failing his class.†
Chpt 1.4
- He assumed she saw him, too, even imagined that he had detected the slightest smile.†
Chpt 1.4
- Figured he didn't need to say anything before I shipped out 'cause he assumed I wasn't coming back.†
Chpt 1.5
- Everyone assumed that her dad had helped her get the job, but in reality she was a very good journalist and the most competent member of Charlie "Mac" Thompkin's staff.†
Chpt 2.11
- As the last one stopped without the passengers they were anticipating, some were concerned but most just went home, assuming that some inefficiency or mix-up had been the source of their children not returning.†
Chpt 2.14
- Several people stood outside their houses, watering new gardens or doing other odds and ends to beautify properties once assumed unworthy of such pride.†
Chpt 2.17
- Cesar blamed himself, assuming that his behavior on the night that had culminated in his ride home in the deputy's car, had caused the problem.†
Chpt 2.19
- Ours left a few days ago and they just assumed there'd be a priest here.†
Chpt 2.19
- The crowd roared, assuming it was going to be a multiple-run scoring hit.†
Chpt 3.24
- "But I assumed you loved—" Padre Esteban motioned for Cesar to come closer as if he were about to impart a terrible secret.†
Chpt 3.30
Definitions:
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(1)
(assume as in: I assume it's true) to accept something as true without proof
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(2)
(assume as in: She assumed power) beginning to take power or responsibility
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(3)
(assume as in: She assumed a false identity) to take on (adopt, wear, strike a pose or appearance of) -- often while pretending or disguising
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(4)
(assume as in: assumed into heaven) to take up or receive someone into heaven
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)