assertion
Example Sentences
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“It’s a powerful assertion that the Fed will maintain needed independence and policy decision making.”
From Barron's
The sources of some of his assertions about general economic conditions are unclear, or at least not cited in his published work.
From Los Angeles Times
He told a huge crowd of supporters gathered on Bogotá’s central square recently that such assertions were a “bag of lies.”
Scholarship requires every assertion to be supported by a document of some kind—a letter or a contract, say.
But Lemon’s attorney rejected the assertion he did anything criminal.
From Los Angeles Times
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