PREJUDGMENT Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

prejudgment

noun

as in assumption

an attitude, belief, or impression formed in advance of actual experience of something the general public's prejudgment of the accused before the trial had even started

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Recent Examples of prejudgment Goff — who is well known in the state for highway billboards and TV ads often featuring celebrities — is seeking $350,000 through a prejudgment remedy. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026 And an absurd prejudgment that a museum celebrating a presidency could not coexist with an institution also focused on offering art, basketball and a plethora of gathering spaces to a community that has suffered from disinvestment for decades. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026 The bill would also lower New York’s outdated 9% prejudgment interest rate, which currently rewards vulture funds for dragging litigation. — Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026 Still, even in opposing the new bill in Connecticut, one MCA group — the Revenue Based Finance Coalition, which represents funders and brokers — voiced support for the ban on prejudgment remedies. — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026 Macciocchi agreed to pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest of about $404,343 dollars plus a $125,000 dollar civil penalty, and Young agreed to pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest totaling about $575,610 dollars and a $75,000 dollar civil penalty. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026

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Noun

Given Abbey’s anxieties about spending money and fear of not having enough, Stacy plans to use very conservative assumptions for inflation, health costs and average returns when making her projections based on Abbey’s savings today.

— Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
But researchers involved in the study challenged that assumption.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumption

Noun

Framing theory explains how the presentation of information in the media influences the way people process and interpret it.

— Heather LaMarre, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
His theory didn’t reach far beyond Japan until the translation of his original essay, first in 1978, then in 2005, and again, with Mori’s approval, in 2012.

— Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of theory

Noun

Of course, one is inevitably loaded with expectations and prejudices, but the ideal of letting the work teach you how to consider it, as the philosopher Stanely Cavell counseled, is a useful starting point.

— Lola Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
Misty is a long-ago Emmy winner whose career has slipped through her fingers, in part because of reckless behavior on and off the set and and in part because of racist and ageist prejudices in casting.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2026

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