affirms

VERB

declare the truth of something

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assert confirm declare guarantee insist maintain profess ratify repeat

STRONG

asseverate attest aver avouch avow certify cinch clinch ice okay predicate pronounce set state swear testify vouch witness

WEAK

cross heart have a lock on lock up nail down put on ice rubber-stamp say so swear on bible swear up and down

Antonyms

STRONGEST

deny forget veto

STRONG

disavow refute reject renounce repudiate

WEAK

negate nullify

Example Sentences

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“This further affirms our view that Constellation is likely to continue to scale and compound capital at high rates,” Treiber says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The company affirms its full-year earnings outlook of $11 to $12 a share, slightly below expectations.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

In various chat logs the BBC has seen, the chatbot suggests, affirms and embellishes these ideas.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

“This new information affirms that guardrails on public-private partnerships are important in all instances and especially this one,” Pham said in a statement.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

At the same time the sacrament of the Mass affirms ‘the perpetual contemporaneity of The Passion’ and celebrates the ‘marriage of time present with time past’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton