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assertion

[uh-sur-shuhn] / əˈsɜr ʃən /


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Other announcements, including Microsoft’s assertion of a “breakthrough” with the release of its Majorana 1 chip last year, have drawn similar scrutiny.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

But I have to challenge his assertion that there is no policy solution to this crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The assertion that Asian Americans and other nonwhite immigrants don’t “assimilate”—a freighted term, to be sure—is both easy and hard to refute.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Hernandez declined to comment, but Chang didn’t dispute the assertion that DSA is seeking to gain power.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

From some of the nation’s leading scientists would come denunciations of Oppenheimer, veiled and overt, among them Edward Teller’s assertion that “I personally would feel more secure if public matters would rest in other hands.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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