dubious assumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdubiousandassumption
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dubious
adjective
uk/ˈdʒuː.bi.əs/us/ˈduː.bi.əs/
thought not to be completely true or not able to ...
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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 ofdubiousandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It can only be regarded as non-contrastive under thedubiousassumptionthat there is an underlying distinction between simple and geminate consonants, a distinction that is always neutralised.
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This is adubiousassumption.
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That is adubiousassumption.
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The admission of this axiom into a system of logic is therefore a defect... adubiousassumption.
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This might have had positive implications had the report not gone on to make several other dubious assumptions.
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That estimate depends on wild guesses and highly dubious assumptions.
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There are even more dubious assumptions, implicit in the figure of £115 billion, about gross domestic product growth, interest rates and unemployment.
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When one strips away even those more dubious assumptions, we are talking perhaps about an estimate that lies between £5 million and £10 million, rather than £17 million.
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The fourth method is incorporating dubious assumptions and deliberately hiding other assumptions.
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Accountancy in this case would be simply based on a series of dubious assumptions with a fudge and mudge either way.
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The case is not clearly established and there is very considerable doubt surrounding this whole issue, rested, as it is, upon very dubious assumptions about energy forecasts and so on.
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Racial classifications are based on outmoded concepts and dubious assumptions regarding genetic differences.
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But he also noted that such estimates depend on many dubious assumptions.
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