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assert

Definition for assert

verb as in insist, declare, maintain

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In a prepared statement, Rothrock asserted that all the staff at MonteCedro were trained in emergency procedures and said the evacuation process was “led and controlled by the L.A. County Fire and Sheriff’s Department.”

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He has denounced “organized Jewry in America” and asserts that “Jews are running society.”

But the No. 15 Bruins finally asserted themselves with a big run sparked by some impressive offense of their own, pulling away for an 83-62 victory to avoid embarrassment on their home court.

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This time around, “the macro and market imbalances… particularly from 1998 onwards… are not generally visible yet,” Goldman Sachs asserts in a Sunday report.

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The group challenging the law, Taking Offense, asserted in its lawsuit that the provision mandating that long-term care facilities use people’s chosen pronouns amounts to “criminalizing and compelling speech content.”

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

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