asserts
Example Sentences
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Second, the wide discretion the government asserts poses ongoing national security risks.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
Monetarism, which asserts that these aggregates are correlated with inflation, tends to receive more attention during periods of rapid growth in M2 and prices.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
“There’s no need to say much,” she asserts.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Harron asserts that Solanas’ actions were not the result of a brief, blind rage, but of a chronic discontent — a state of mind that looks all the more familiar two decades later.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
“If she goes, I go,” Mama asserts, but the guard has already turned his back on her.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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