asserted

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CEO Sushil Patel, who has held the role for two years, asserted the rapid development and commercialization of a treatment was imperative to address the thousands of deaths from melanoma each year.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

There isn’t evidence of meaningful capital rotation from private to public BDCs just yet but “the set-up is compelling,” the firm asserted.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Blumenthal asserted that, according to a whistleblower, ICE agents have been instructed to break into homes and Mullin pushed back, accusing Blumenthal of using the term break in "loosely".

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

It asserted that widespread famines and mass starvation would doom huge swaths of mankind because the world’s population was growing too rapidly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

By July of 1955 he had reached, on the trek to Worcester, a small Kansas town, Phillipsburg, and there “fate,” in the form of “bad company,” asserted itself.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote