assert
Example Sentences
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“Those taxpayers are left to defend their tax returns when the government suddenly appears unannounced, out of nowhere, asserting massive tax liabilities from decades earlier,” the filing said.
From MarketWatch
It is much too soon to assert that this is likely or even plausible.
From BBC
Rosie Clark, a Maryland volunteer who did some genealogical research on the Cheltenham burial site, asserts that many official documents were forged.
From Barron's
In doing so, Paxton and other states’ attorneys general asserted, the investors broke antitrust laws.
Citadel’s macro strategist Frank Flight asserts that AI adoption will be slower than many think and therefore abrupt labor disruption is unlikely to happen.
From MarketWatch
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