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
In the film’s opening credits, Phillips is given a title card that comes early as opposed to much later.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
3 Aug. 2026 Ritchson, Morgan, Kirschenbaum and Roth pitched the project as Fast & Furious with motorcycles, which excited the studio given Morgan and Kirschenbaum’s ties to that Universal franchise.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for given
Lululemon will give you a gift card, up to $25, in exchange for gently used women's and men's clothing.
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Kristine Lazar,
CBS News,
31 July 2026
Maresca’s football, fundamentally, is based on finding the free man and creating numerical superiorities in different areas of the pitch, and the City players are well used to that after their time with Guardiola.
Caglianone should take advantage of his matchup against a homer-prone and fly-ball pitcher by launching a home run tonight and cash in for bettors who take advantage of his alluring +489 odds to hit a home run.
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Josh Shepardson,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2026
Though typically lower in fat, frozen yogurt is prone to containing high amounts of sugar.
These failures stemmed not from new vulnerabilities, but from basic security flaws like weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints, and reliance on assumptions over robust controls.
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Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2026
Your assumption that your pension isn’t safe may not be true, and a good attorney may be able to help protect it.
A bit of final lagniappe handed to the BKTrustee was a ruling that all the assets of the Children's Trust was determined to be part of the Kittrells' bankruptcy estate.
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Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2026
Michele Wilson Szabo and her company, American Log Homes and Cabins, left customers empty handed when her log cabin kit business folded in January.
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