assert
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Appeared in the January 6, 2026, print edition as 'New Regime Is Rushing to Assert Control'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
The members of the Holy Alliance intended also to Assert Fernando VII’s control over his rebellious American colonies.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Assert sweeping claims of executive privilege, they advised him, after Mr. Corcoran had suggested that an unspecified “chief judge” would ultimately validate their belief that a president’s powers extend far beyond their time in office.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2022
Tenants unknown Assert their squalid lease of sin With earlier title than his own.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013
Assert purposiveness as the one supreme and pure activity of life, and you drift into barren sterility, like our business life of to-day, and our political life.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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