assertion
Example Sentences
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She has often repeated her mentor’s assertion of colonial-era atrocities in Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
These trends emerged despite the mayor's assertion that London's per capita homicide rate has fallen to its lowest level on record.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Here is where I’m required to offer a throat-clearing assertion that everyone else’s marriage is a mystery, and that we can never know the depths of love or loathing from the outside.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
This reinforces our assertion that investors, including market makers and oil traders, have no idea how to price oil to reflect war risks.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
The golden ratio was favored by artists and nature alike and seemed to prove the Pythagorean assertion that music, beauty, architecture, nature, and the very construction of the cosmos were all intertwined and inseparable.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing assertion
The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 6
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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