asserted
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Ahead of the vote, Trump again asserted that negotiations to end the war are going "very well" and could be finalised this weekend.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Sumner asserted that “the true idea of a Republic” is that “all the citizens have an equal voice in government.”
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
The government had plausible defenses that it never asserted.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
“Software has not yet proven it won’t be disrupted, so it’s not an obvious long either,” it asserted.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
He asserted that Greenland is drifting west by about a mile a year, which is clearly nonsense.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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