The phrase "assumed like a" is not standard in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used in a context where you are comparing someone's assumption to a specific manner or style, but it requires clarification for proper understanding.
Example: "He assumed like a leader, taking charge of the situation without hesitation."
Alternatives: "taken on as" or "regarded as".
I want to suggest in this lecture something that will initially sound, I assume, like a peculiar formulation: there's a strange way in which Milton has to imagine himself losing his memory if he's actually going to open himself up to the muses' inspiration and the inspiration of the Christian, the heavenly, muse.
"The transfer market in England does not close until the end of August and there is the possibility that it could happen," Roberto Mancini said yesterday, holding up a map and a calendar and a picture of a market and assuming, like a really patronising driving instructor, that you know absolutely nothing at all.
Maybe through a series of failed relationships you end up kind of assuming, like a cornered animal, that the only way to survive is to not trust anyone and fight.
"He was told by publishers that if he was ever going to do a romantic novel, which he wanted to do … it might be better to do it under an assumed name, like a lady's name.
His time is an astonishing 7min 57sec but I assume, like me, he has a day job.
The show is arranged by genre: landscape, portrait, self-portrait (often in costume and assumed character, like a seventeenth-century Cindy Sherman), and so on.
It is assumed that, like a typical import cargo, RanGTP releases the r-protein from the importin and the r-protein somehow finds its way to its cognate rRNA site.
So Sharpe James merely assumed a pose like a batter when he was warned that a verbal curveball was headed his way.
Geant4 was first used to model a traditional Hornyak button, and for assumed, hodoscope-like conditions, an intrinsic efficiency of 0.35% for mono-directional fission neutrons was predicted.
Our previous 2011 forecast of a loss before tax of £2.5m assumed a flat like for like outcome.
