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 given
Noun
Schedule flexibility, reliable childcare, predictable transportation—these are treated as givens in how jobs are designed.—
Caroline Fairchild,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 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
Verb
Yet the diverging political and regulatory attention paid to the two industries makes increasingly little sense, given the bond market’s growing primacy in the financial system, and its ability to also cause mayhem.—
Robin Wigglesworth,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2026 However, given the company's solid track record of successfully delivering previous generation organizers to thousands of backers globally, the M3 represents a calculated bet rather than a shot in the dark.—New Atlas,
29 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for given
After Pugh’s post, several other celebrities such as Mariska Hargitay, Josh Gad, Hudson Williams and more used social media to also condemn the Cornell 7.
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Zack Sharf,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2026
The vast majority of people buy used vehicles, and that's what makes up most of the vehicles on the road.
Partita makes the same category error people like young Livia are prone to.
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Sam Worley,
Vulture,
5 Oct. 2026
Our simplified treatment programs work, and are 20% cheaper than the standard treatment mechanisms; but manual, error-prone data collection holds them back.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended the assumption that energy infrastructure could be insulated from geopolitics.
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Sam Birchall,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2026
Zahir Islam, PhD, a physicist at ANL, and co-author of the study, said the finding challenges a common assumption in microelectronics that the substrate beneath a thin film simply acts as a passive support.
Husted has donated remaining Wexner contributions to an anti-human trafficking charity.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Oct. 2026
Kao and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with more than $40 million a year in government funds.
By May 2024, Red Lobster was in bankruptcy court, and Thai Union essentially handed the keys over to creditors, including Fortress Investment Group, which emerged as the eventual owner.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2026
Yet the way the alleged data could be abused should feel familiar to anyone who has handed personal information to an employer, bank, health provider, insurance company or government agency.
Their navies then carried out a joint maritime patrol in the Pacific in July, with both operations presented as efforts to improve interoperability and joint operational capabilities.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Oct. 2026
During the festival, honorary awards were presented to Julianne Moore, Tom Hiddleston, Naomi Watts, John Turturro and other luminaries.
Messi collapsed to the turf as his teammates, delirious, ran to hug him.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Oct. 2026
Jim Bakker, the pioneering TV evangelist who became a symbol of the glitz and greed of the 1980s when his PTL empire near Charlotte collapsed amid scandals, died Monday.
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Melissa Rodriguez,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Oct. 2026
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