assertion
Example Sentences
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He told a huge crowd of supporters gathered on Bogotá’s central square recently that such assertions were a “bag of lies.”
Scholarship requires every assertion to be supported by a document of some kind—a letter or a contract, say.
But Lemon’s attorney rejected the assertion he did anything criminal.
From Los Angeles Times
The article was filled with with so many assertions about virus science that experienced virologists knew to be false that it “closed the book on him,” Moore told me.
From Los Angeles Times
But some not insubstantial number of these politicians’ listeners take their assertions both seriously and literally.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
