assertion

Example Sentences

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In a filing, the Justice Department accepted a court’s appointment of Robert Frazer as head of New Jersey’s U.S. attorney’s office, an abrupt reversal of its assertion that courts have no such power.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2026

You might roll your eyes at the quasi-hippie assertion, but 100 pages later, you will nod your head sagely in agreement.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

But she did not read that assertion aloud.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

There’s a lot of data that backs this assertion up.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Try to conquer your cowardice, and start your concluding chapter with the creative assertion: Lo!

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker