assert
Example Sentences
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“Consumers shouldn’t have to go to infinity and beyond to assert their privacy rights,” Atty.
From Los Angeles Times
He goes further at the end of the book, asserting that “one would have had to yearn desperately for a warm and loving childhood to so fantastically create the toys of such a childhood.”
On Tuesday, Lord Doyle issued a statement, saying: "At the point of my campaigning support, Morton repeatedly asserted to all those who knew him his innocence, including initially in court."
From BBC
A new report asserts that many of those threats were toothless.
From Los Angeles Times
Kimberly Ann Polk was previously a substitute teacher in Montgomery County, Md., until the district enforced its policy to require addressing students with the pronouns of their asserted gender identities.
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