insisting

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Earlier, markets turned jittery following a report that Iran was insisting on keeping its enriched uranium, but sentiment then improved after reports suggested progress is being made.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

"Our issue is now really upstream from that," she said, insisting that far more work needed to go into identifying risks and how "these outbreaks get away".

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

And he’s been on the road this spring and summer, insisting to one audience after another that he does not believe you can “manufacture a revival.”

From Salon • May 17, 2026

A plant sitter who eats her clients’ plants while insisting she’s very good at her job.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

It was this new sort of knowledge that Sprat had in mind when he defended the Royal Society from its critics, insisting that the starting point of the new knowledge, experimental evidence, was extremely reliable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton