Given in a sentence as a noun

"* The black coworker is given a dictionary and told "I got this for you cause I know you speak ebonics.

With the green usernames, they're both at 00FF00 and have no idea if the community has given the other person more votes.

I mean, I assume they're not, given that Apps Script only works in Spreadsheet right now, and it doesn't even have keyboard shortcuts as part of its API.

They are conditional, and you need to live up to whatever the conditions may be in any given relationship.

I talk about this in every single presentation Ive ever given about sharding[0]: do no wait too long to add capacity.

It contained several errors which is pretty astonishing given its brevity.

It used to be that HP engineers were expressly given Friday afternoons and full access to company resources to just play with new ideas.

Given in a sentence as an adjective

Something I thought slightly peculiar given that he was supposed to be investing his own, significant funds along with B. Plus, I don't believe that he actually did any measurable work during the time period that would justify it based on what I knew at the time.

We thought, given the implications for such things as life extension, that it was pretty funny to have the speakers literally preaching from the pulpit with the listeners sitting in the church pews.

In reality, if any persons - right-thinking or not - are given largely unchecked authority over our lives, abuses will inevitably follow.

"Ultimately any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge" and had the judge thrown the book at him Ortiz & Heymann would have washed their hands: "Oh well, maybe the judge shouldn't have given him 8 years rather than 3, but that's what he gets for not plea bargaining.

And this is the major factor not grasped by those today who assume that society is evolving to a point that, if only right-thinking people with good motives are given enough power over our lives, they will somehow magically transform society for the good through government action.

"The suspension email stated that I was trying to impersonate another company" is followed quickly by "Well since Google was silent about the exact reason for suspension..."; he even admits to intentionally ignoring the warnings he was given because "if I thought a human at Google was giving me the warning, I might have listened more carefully.

Given definitions

noun

an assumption that is taken for granted

See also: presumption precondition

adjective

acknowledged as a supposition; "given the engine's condition, it is a wonder that it started"

See also: granted

adjective

(usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward; "he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant"; "I am not minded to answer any questions"