Assuming in a sentence as an adjective

He should be getting about 16% of the company, assuming he remains for 4 years.

I'm assuming some HNers are soon to arrive saying things like "why does it matter that a founder is a female?

"""Before assuming that you are smarter than the old guy, you ought to make sure that you really understand the problem.

There's absolutely no basis for assuming that traffic will continue at the spiked rate.

It's unfortunate that people who come here on student visas get married -- assuming they have enough money -- and have a green card in six months.

But don't make the engineer's mistake of assuming "Since I don't use it, nobody uses it" or "Nobody's use of this is important to them.

Short version: it's one of the most absurdly customer-friendly pieces of legislation in the US, assuming you know how to work it.

VirtualBox was using a publicly exposed API at the kernel level and assuming that such an API would be stable.

But assuming the report is accurate, this is unacceptable behavior and I'd like to see more employees who take a risk on startups getting what they deserve and enforcing their rights.

Assuming definitions

adjective

excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"

See also: assumptive presumptuous