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Authorities insist it is needed to maintain stability.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Tugboat’s seemingly unimpressive heater might not light up the radar gun, but batters insist it feels much faster than it actually is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

I have two advisers who both independently insist that I remain invested in the market since inflation is the biggest threat to my portfolio, which is worth over $10 million.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Mere days after taking to the media to insist that he is a misunderstood film buff who just wants to save Hollywood, he threatened to help destroy it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

“Sorry, we’ll get in trouble. We have to go,” I insist.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Rowan insists Duryea’s footprint is the same as before he bought it, saying the property, even in the old days, had a cookhouse where seafood was prepared and sold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Hearn claims those reports were based on a leaked email and insists the issues raised in it were not part of the list sent to Sela.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Yet “this is not a crime story,” Mira insists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

She insists it has always complied with the law.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

“He told me that he knows where the Whitechapel Club is, but he insists on taking me there. We plan to go tonight.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

I hadn’t heard them outside of the hits — blame my father, who insisted on blaring Bob Dylan — but it was one of those experiences you wish you could live through on repeat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

The other scientist insisted “I don’t believe a half of a millimeter really matters so much.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

For those who’d insisted that only self-paced classes would attract the market share of international business, the people taking my classes ironically spanned 50 countries.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Burke insisted that new black lung cases do not reflect current mining conditions, because of the delay in the onset of symptoms.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Adjoyi Jr. insisted on carrying Ma’s farm basket home for her.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

“But she kept insisting that I had to do it her way or I was not going to get better.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The Sweden striker finally clinched his British record transfer move to Liverpool on transfer deadline day after weeks of Newcastle United insisting he was not for sale.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The defendant was arrested at the hospital and provided a pre-prepared statement accepting that he let himself into the house but denying the offences insisting everything was consensual.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

"It's a disease," said Papatiti, who was born and raised in the local Maasai community, insisting there was "no way" cyanide was involved.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Rishi’s nose wasn’t bleeding anymore, but Dimple kept insisting he put an ice pack on it.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon