assertion

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On Thursday, the U.K. government released a statement saying that its pharmaceutical companies wouldn’t be tariffed—an assertion the Trump official confirmed, saying that U.K. drugmakers had already committed to invest in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

In a filing, the Justice Department accepted a court’s appointment of Robert Frazer as head of New Jersey’s U.S. attorney’s office, an abrupt reversal of its assertion that courts have no such power.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2026

You might roll your eyes at the quasi-hippie assertion, but 100 pages later, you will nod your head sagely in agreement.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

There’s a lot of data that backs this assertion up.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

In answer to this assertion, I can say, I never loved any or confided in any people more than my fellow-slaves, and especially those with whom I lived at Mr. Freeland’s.

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass