insisted

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McClain’s elaborate scheme came apart in April 2023, when a local truck dealer who had invested around $650,000 insisted on repayment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

"We are for development, we are for transparency, we are against construction in protected areas," she insisted.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Yet Raman still insisted she had unlocked something transformative.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Black Americans who fought to make the United States into a multiracial democracy insisted that states that denied Black Americans full voting rights were not republican governments.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Jonathan would have preferred that, too, but his parents had insisted he come along on the overnight outing.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret