affirm

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Feelings are increasingly treated not as signals to examine but as conclusions to affirm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Upholding these bans would affirm that professional standards and evidence-based practices still govern licensed treatment.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

Higher expenses will compress margins in the near term, the analysts noted, but Akamai continues to announce large compute deals that affirm its relevance in the cloud-services market.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

A second possible outcome would be for the appeals panel to affirm the guilty verdict but remove the "immediate effect" clause.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026

As ’twas, he could neither affirm nor deny her account of her childhood.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson