assert

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Arbitrators declined to award any relief and found that Overdeck’s and Siegel’s “over-the-top efforts to assert claims against each other” hurt their credibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Doctors who use speech to harm their patients “can now assert a First Amendment right to carry on, regardless of these standards.”

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

They assert that their markets are better than traditional opinion polls at discovering what people really think — that in effect they are monetizing “the wisdom of crowds.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

The great arbitrage of the 21st century is to preserve openness without surrendering agency and to assert sovereignty without cutting oneself from technology, markets, and ideas.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

“What is a participle? Does it ever part with its verbal significance? Does it assert action?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck