asserted
Example Sentences
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He asserted that the government doles out “hundreds of billions of dollars, under the act. ... They take our money, and they don’t spend it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Iran has asserted that it has total control over traffic in the Gulf and is willing to barrage ships that don’t travel along its designated corridor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
South Africa once again asserted their dominance over England with a commanding victory at Ellis Park, with the outcome rarely in doubt across 80 bruising minutes.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Last September, Thomas asserted that existing court decisions are not “the gospel” and that they may be based on “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.”
From Slate ● Jul. 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
