asserted

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A sports business blogger named Joe Pompliano appealed for someone to “please explain marginal tax rates to Kelsey Plum,” and asserted that the one extra dollar would cost her not $13,000, but 13 cents.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

As Alito asserted, “Social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South.”

From Slate • May 5, 2026

Presented with a detailed list of this article’s findings, Rachel Cauley, the OMB’s communications director, asserted that “this story is false because it speculates about policies that have not yet been decided.”

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

Mr. Fair asserted that “there is no question that what we learned from informants saved lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

By July of 1955 he had reached, on the trek to Worcester, a small Kansas town, Phillipsburg, and there “fate,” in the form of “bad company,” asserted itself.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote