assert
Example Sentences
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Ms. Kuin asserts, on thin grounds, that “Diogenes is the most likely candidate for belonging to this group of opponents of slavery.”
Artists asserting Jewish identities may also have only slight acquaintance with their history or significance.
Is this the out-of-touch old guard asserting authority, or a young person’s reckless, impulsive mistake?
From Salon
His team were hit on the counter, his defence ripped apart, his hopes of asserting himself as a manager of substance cast to the wind.
From BBC
Eisenstein asserted that the film “looks like a newsreel of an event, but it functions as a drama.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
