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
This is a role that Iran has been intent on asserting.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
That he spent a good deal of time asserting his own vision of the exposition’s landscape is also beyond doubt, especially his belief that the Wooded Island should remain entirely free of conspicuous man-made structures.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
