assert

Example Sentences

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Even more telling was Tehran’s insistence that it would continue to assert control over Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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

It is much too soon to assert that this is likely or even plausible.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 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

“What is a participle? Does it ever part with its verbal significance? Does it assert action?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck