assertive
Example Sentences
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Affordability “is a problem across the state and it’s something that I think we have to be more assertive about,” said City Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera, who proposed the legislation for the tax.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
It has a faint, almost red-hot intensity; it’s not aggressive, but assertive.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
It marked the latest victory in Turkey's increasingly assertive push to recover antiquities illegally taken abroad -- a campaign supported by a newly-developed AI tool for identifying cultural assets of Turkish origin.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
The Muscarelle Museum of Art takes an engaging, expansive approach to highlighting the often-overlooked female practitioners of the assertive midcentury style.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026
Rosy and Gosling were pugnaciously assertive: their future course of action would be unaffected by their fifty-mile excursion into adolescent blather.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Vocabulary lists containing assertive
ACT Reading Test: Words to Capture Tone, List 1
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