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assert

[uh-surt] / əˈsɜrt /


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"The individuals implicated in these case studies are working scientists. We do not assert that they intended harm, and identifying them or their labs could expose them to harm," the report said.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

The latest bout of fighting marks an intensifying effort by both sides to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

West asserts that Gilkar and Ahmed pressured her to terminate the pregnancy; Gilkar and Ahmed assert that West initially agreed that termination would be best and even made an appointment before changing her mind.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

It remains to be seen whether Asher-Smith will choose to join Hunt in that event, which would give her the chance to assert herself as the outright most successful athlete in championship history.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

The instincts of the military wife were beginning to assert themselves, the old efficiency of stealing away from temporary homes and entering the bloodstream of highways heading to new quarters.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“East of the River” asserts her love of women, starting with her mom, an immigrant born in Uruapan, Michoacán.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Customers weren't "ready" for robot-made pizza, he asserts.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

But like its creator, Schoenbrun’s film asserts that media can be integral to personal identity.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

As scholar Sheila Jasanoff asserts, sound democratic governance requires epistemic humility—an explicit acknowledgment of the limits of scientific certainty in real time.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

In spirit, it asserts solidarity with the “least of these among us.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The Smithsonian asserted it had control over personnel matters, but Sajet later resigned, citing the museum's best interests.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

He made plain in his book that the triumph of Western liberal democracy was far from complete, even as he asserted that it was the high point of mankind’s ideological evolution.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

The item asserted that some Medicare and Medicaid cancer patients wait longer for treatment than those with private insurance.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

The trust relied on the injury asserted by Alison Hoagland, one of its members.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

Las Casas’s successors usually shared his ideas—the eighteenth- century Jesuit Francisco Javier Clavijero, for example, asserted that the pre-Columbian population of Mexico alone was thirty million.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

All of them have top-flight or international experience, as well as physicality to their game, but even those additions did little to prevent Arsenal from asserting their superiority on Friday night.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The ICC expressed concern over those withdrawals, asserting that such countries risked undermining the collective pursuit of justice.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

“People wait their whole life to find their calling,” Casey’s teacher tells her about the scholarship, asserting that a natural fluency in science means it must be her destiny.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

At the time, a Romney spokesman defended the holding by asserting that the tax treatment of his IRA “is the same for Gov. Romney as it is for every citizen of the U.S.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

After asserting that “the architects of America had covered themselves with glory” through their exposition designs, Burnham rebuked the nation’s civil engineers for failing to rise to the same level of brilliance.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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