asserting
Example Sentences
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Here we meet Kelly Macdonald, suppressing her Scottish accent as tough but tender Sheriff Kerry, asserting her jurisdictional rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Most of Wall Street’s midcap narratives boil down to nothing more than asserting that such stocks are neither too big nor too little but “just right.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
People have to get more comfortable with asserting things that they believe to be true about the Constitution, right?
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
But it fell apart amid Iranian attacks on ships aimed at asserting Tehran’s control over the waterway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
