affirms

Example Sentences

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On the day the charges were reported in the newspaper La Jornada, for example, there was another story with the headline “Expert Affirms That the Possibility that the Students Were Cremated in Cocula is ‘Zero.’

From The New Yorker • Feb. 7, 2015

Affirms biology professor Michael Moore: "Murder is not within our...it's not us."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the old Earth brooding, All wisdom including, Affirms and assures That above the material, Triumphal imperial Beauty endures.

From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell

I tell thee true; my mother’s voice Affirms me his, but since no mortal knows 270 His derivation, I affirm it not.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

The indicative represents something as a fact,— Affirms or denies.

From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt