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A tech company is affirming that automating certain decisions may not, in fact, be the smart thing to do — tacitly acknowledging that removing human agency can generate harm.

As a scholar whose research focuses on the ethics of communication and as a yoga teacher, I’m interested in how people use rituals and rhetoric to affirm their interconnectedness with one another – and with the world.

First, they needed to affirm that things were indeed quieter.

We believe that it’s every American’s responsibility to do what they can to affirm, safeguard, and advance the health of our democracy.

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PFLAG envisions a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are affirmed, valued, and respected.

But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance.

Advocates claimed that it helped to preserve virtue and to affirm the application of Sharia law.

What is worse, it does so only to affirm sexist stereotypes.

So when we progress, when we affirm ourselves, we should not threaten them.

I believe this because these ideals that we affirm are true.

To fix on any one stage in such an evolution, detach it, affirm it, is to wrest a true scripture to its destruction.

For my part, I scarcely know what to say; inasmuch as I do not care either to affirm or deny a thing of which I have no proof.

Some affirm that he wrote to please royalty, but if so why did he not condemn the custom to appease the wrath of a sapient king.

In my opinion, the situation of Candy is most beautiful, but many affirm that it is too near the mountains, and lies in a pit.

Many travellers affirm that the Taj-Mehal produces a magical effect when lighted by the moon.

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On this page you'll find 128 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to affirm, such as: assert, confirm, declare, guarantee, insist, and maintain.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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