assert

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Arbitrators declined to award any relief and found that Overdeck’s and Siegel’s “over-the-top efforts to assert claims against each other” hurt their credibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Doctors who use speech to harm their patients “can now assert a First Amendment right to carry on, regardless of these standards.”

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

The great arbitrage of the 21st century is to preserve openness without surrendering agency and to assert sovereignty without cutting oneself from technology, markets, and ideas.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

“Consumers shouldn’t have to go to infinity and beyond to assert their privacy rights,” Atty.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

In place of the old system, Wanner said, have arisen “new ways of transmitting advantage that are beginning to assert themselves.”

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times