assert

Example Sentences

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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

I was careful not to formally assert the level of causation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

How a former and sitting chair would coexist, how markets would interpret any disagreement between them, and how Warsh would assert authority in that environment are all open questions.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

But the writers are never not looking for ways to assert their intellectual or even theological bona fides.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Even now he dared not assert himself but held the Bible uncertainly in his hands and asked, “What would you have me read, sir?”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare