The phrase "assume instead" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when suggesting an alternative assumption or perspective in a discussion or argument.
Example: "If we cannot find the original data, we should assume instead that the results are based on the most recent figures available."
Alternatives: "presume rather" or "take for granted instead".
I think if we had started in the library we could have focused much more on what we assume, instead of what farmers actually told us.
He doesn't believe that the outsider generation Vice is speaking to will adopt old-style party-based politics any time soon, but will assume instead a far more eclectic and scattershot range of anger and passion.
So you'd wonder what he did mean and assume instead, if you were not already familiar with the usage, that he must mean "crazy", because you understand the rest of what you've read.
In 1929 Evans wrote the short story "Brooms" as "a kind of unconscious literary farewell, in which he decided to 'omit' all of the troubling confessional elements of his 'inner life' " and to assume instead an impersonal style, the authors of "Unclassified" write.
If we assume instead that Johnson's fabled encounter with old Nick did actually take place, then how better for the prince of darkness to amuse himself than by ensuring that the ensuing process of musical evolution (the one that ultimately led us, lest we forget, to Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast) should have unfolded at a speed that was too high by a percentile ending in.666?
Assume, instead, that case (2) holds.
The ideas float, and historical change is assumed instead of dramatized.
The true scandal is decades of assistance in which such corruption was assumed instead of investigated and exposed.
Assuming instead that the gamma(1S) mesons are produced with different polarizations leads to variations in the measured cross section in the range from 38%to+36%6%.
In deterministic modeling techniques, time variation is seen as a continuous and predictable process, whereas in stochastic modeling techniques, a random-walk process is assumed instead.
We hypothesized that this was because it lacks a behavioral component, assuming instead that bees in essence diffuse out from the nest into the landscape.
