erroneous assumption

Frequency: 5.53.0 per million words

A wrong or incorrect assumption.

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  • A business plan based on an erroneous assumption about market demand is doomed to fail.
  • The project failed because it was based on the erroneous assumption that funding would be unlimited.
  • Early scientists operated under the erroneous assumption that the Earth was the center of the universe.
  • Many people build their arguments on an erroneous assumption.
  • The entire case was built upon the erroneous assumption that the witness was telling the truth.
  • We must challenge the erroneous assumption that success is measured only by wealth.
  • He made the erroneous assumption that she was uninterested, simply because she was quiet.
  • Her research was flawed due to an erroneous assumption about the sample population.
  • Many historical misinterpretations stem from an erroneous assumption about the culture of the time.
  • I acted on the erroneous assumption that he had already approved the budget.
  • The study's conclusions were invalidated because they rested on a fundamentally erroneous assumption.
  • The entire legal strategy was built upon an erroneous assumption of the defendant's guilt.
  • If we proceed with this erroneous assumption, we will waste significant resources.
  • It is a common but erroneous assumption that more features always mean a better product.
  • They had acted on the erroneous assumption that the funding was already secured.
  • The company lost millions by operating under the erroneous assumption that the market would not change.
  • It's dangerous to make investment decisions based on an erroneous assumption about future trends.
  • Correcting this single erroneous assumption could change the entire outcome of the experiment.
  • We must challenge the erroneous assumption that more technology automatically leads to more progress.
  • Historians now understand that this was an erroneous assumption based on incomplete evidence.