Thesaurus results for GIVENS

givens

noun

plural of given

as in assumptions

something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning it's a given that television viewers are influenced by advertising, even consciously or subconsciously

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Recent Examples of givens There were some givens (the Detroit Tigers’ dealing Tarik Skubal), some surprises (the Baltimore Orioles’ moving on from Adley Rutschman) and plenty of hugs given along the way. — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Where the show’s values were once givens, almost diorama labels, now they’re presented as more fugitive and unstable, what its characters would hope the world to be. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025 Private cloud is also where organizations can focus on delivering AI and what’s next, knowing that security, governance and compliance are givens rather than points of concern. — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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assumptions

Noun

If an employee hesitates or overcommits, avoid making assumptions or asking defensive questions.

— Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
The alternative is to allow each side’s strategy to reinforce the other’s worst assumptions until escalation begins to look less like a choice than an inevitability.

— Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026