asserts

VERB

insist, declare, maintain

Synonyms

STRONGEST

affirm allege argue cite claim contend defend press proclaim profess say stress uphold

STRONG

advance attest aver avouch avow justify predicate pronounce protest state swear vindicate warrant

WEAK

asservate butt in horn in mouth off pop off put forward shoot off one's mouth shoot one's wad stand up for

Antonyms

STRONGEST

abandon conceal deny desert hide leave question surrender

WEAK

reject

Example Sentences

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Asserts Harry Pryde, president of the National Association of Home Builders: "The housing-led recovery is in imminent danger of collapsing."

From Time Magazine Archive

Asserts John Rogoff, senior vice president of Excelsior, which markets the Esther Williams line: "There's a tremendous trend toward modesty and conservatism."

From Time Magazine Archive

Asserts one top party official: "We expect that the Kadar era as an idea will continue even after he has left power."

From Time Magazine Archive

Asserts deficit hawk Scott Klug, a Wisconsin Republican: "The appropriations committee has been extraordinarily defensive of the status quo."

From Time Magazine Archive

I mean that maid who, Fame—not I— Asserts for love of him would die; For fire consumes her heart and head, Since first the opening lines she read Of Cybele the God's great queen.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various