Thesaurus / assert
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Even as her business grows — Elli’s Kosher Kitchen just became the first business to receive kosher certification from the city of Abu Dhabi — Kriel continues to assert her creativity and attention to detail in the kitchen.
THE NEWEST FUSION CUISINE: KOSHERATIFIONA ZUBLINSEPTEMBER 16, 2020OZYIt comes just a week after the Ethiopian House of Federation declared the election as “null and void”, asserting that the poll was unconstitutional.
A CONTROVERSIAL REGIONAL ELECTION WIN IN ETHIOPIA HAS RAISED THE STAKES FOR ITS FEDERAL SYSTEMSAMUEL GETACHEWSEPTEMBER 12, 2020QUARTZIn response to ProPublica’s 2018 reporting, IBM asserted that cases like Miyoshi’s were one-offs and didn’t represent a company practice.
THE U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION CONFIRMS A PATTERN OF AGE DISCRIMINATION AT IBMBY PETER GOSSELIN, SPECIAL TO PROPUBLICASEPTEMBER 11, 2020PROPUBLICA“Definitely, this is not the death of cities,” Chesky asserts.
AIRBNB CEO: THE PANDEMIC WILL FORCE US TO SEE MORE OF THE WORLD, NOT LESSVERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 7, 2020FORTUNEKennedy, thanking supporters, said he called Markey to concede, telling him he’s a “good man” and asserting “you have never heard me say otherwise,” according to the New York Times.
KENNEDY, MORSE COME UP SHORT IN MASSACHUSETTS PRIMARY BIDSCHRIS JOHNSONSEPTEMBER 2, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEIn fact, he said it’s meant to keep them “from knowing and asserting their rights, including their right to vote.”
NEW U.S. CITIZENS WERE ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING VOTING BLOCS. BUT NOT THIS YEAR.EILEEN GUOAUGUST 31, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTIt asserts that if you cover a two-dimensional space with two-dimensional square tiles, at least two of the tiles must share an edge.
COMPUTER SEARCH SETTLES 90-YEAR-OLD MATH PROBLEMKEVIN HARTNETTAUGUST 19, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEThis means that women have disproportionately fewer opportunities to assert their influence on contemporary economic thought.
ONLY 17% OF THE STUDIES PUBLISHED IN TOP ECONOMICS JOURNALS ARE BY WOMENKAREN HOAUGUST 5, 2020QUARTZThe free-energy principle asserts that any self-organizing system will look as if it generates predictions about its environment and seeks to minimize the error of those predictions.
WHAT IS AN INDIVIDUAL? BIOLOGY SEEKS CLUES IN INFORMATION THEORY.JORDANA CEPELEWICZJULY 16, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEThe well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUWORDS RELATED TO ASSERT
- adduce
- advance
- advise
- affirm
- ask
- assert
- broach
- come up with
- contend
- counsel
- hit on
- hold out
- introduce
- invite
- kibitz
- lay before
- lay on the line
- make a motion
- make a pitch
- move for
- name
- nominate
- offer
- pose
- prefer
- press
- proffer
- propone
- proposition
- propound
- put forward
- put to
- put up
- recommend
- request
- set forth
- solicit
- speak one's piece
- spitball
- state
- submit
- tender
- urge
- volunteer
- adduce
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- affirm
- ask
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- broach
- come up with
- contend
- counsel
- hit on
- hold out
- introduce
- invite
- kibitz
- lay before
- lay on the line
- make a motion
- make a pitch
- move for
- name
- nominate
- offer
- pose
- prefer
- press
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- solicit
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- spitball
- state
- submit
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- tender
- urge
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- affirm
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- asseverate
- attest
- avouch
- avow
- back-talk
- be against
- be displeased by
- blast
- buck
- combat
- constate
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- cry out
- declare
- demonstrate
- demur
- disagree
- except
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- fight
- holler
- howl
- insist
- inveigh against
- kick
- maintain
- make a stink
- object
- oppose
- predicate
- profess
- put up a fight
- rebel
- remonstrate
- resist
- revolt
- say no
- sound off
- squawk
- stage a walkout
- take exception
- testify
- thumbs-down
- affirmed
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- add
- affirm
- allege
- announce
- answer
- assert
- break silence
- claim
- come out with
- communicate
- conjecture
- convey
- declare
- deliver
- disclose
- divulge
- do
- estimate
- express
- flap
- gab
- give voice
- guess
- imagine
- imply
- jaw
- judge
- lip
- maintain
- make known
- mention
- opine
- orate
- perform
- pronounce
- put forth
- put into words
- rap
- read
- recite
- rehearse
- relate
- remark
- render
- repeat
- reply
- report
- respond
- reveal
- rumor
- speak
- spiel
- state
- suggest
- tell
- utter
- verbalize
- voice
- yak
- adds
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- announces
- answers
- asserts
- breaks silence
- claims
- comes out with
- communicates
- conjectures
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- declares
- delivers
- discloses
- divulges
- does
- estimates
- expresses
- flaps
- gabs
- gives voice
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- imagines
- implies
- jaws
- judges
- lips
- maintains
- makes known
- mentions
- opines
- orates
- performs
- pronounces
- puts forth
- puts into words
- raps
- reads
- recites
- rehearses
- relates
- remarks
- renders
- repeats
- replies
- reports
- responds
- reveals
- rumors
- speaks
- spiels
- states
- suggests
- tells
- utters
- verbalizes
- voices
- yaks
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