assert
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"The individuals implicated in these case studies are working scientists. We do not assert that they intended harm, and identifying them or their labs could expose them to harm," the report said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“The government totally could assert itself and implement safeguards.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The suit sets up a fight over how artists will assert power over their identities in the messy rise of AI music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The prime minister said on Monday that King Felipe VI would visit Ceuta "as soon as conditions allow", seen as an attempt to assert Spanish authority over the exclave.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Even now he dared not assert himself but held the Bible uncertainly in his hands and asked, “What would you have me read, sir?”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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Raman, who was recently endorsed by DSA’s L.A. chapter, asserts that fixing street lights and potholes isn’t an ideological endeavor, however, and — not unlike Pratt — has framed herself as an agent for change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Customers weren't "ready" for robot-made pizza, he asserts.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
But like its creator, Schoenbrun’s film asserts that media can be integral to personal identity.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
And yet out of all the savagery and destruction, Mr. Winder asserts, also came the distinctive intermingling of customs, cultures and ideas that marked the future of all three river regions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Your aunt and Candace will meet each other—another time,” Dad asserts.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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In a late-night legal filing, OpenAI asserted that Apple filed a baseless lawsuit in an attempt to hamper its ability to recruit new employees and ultimately stall its effort to develop competing technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
He also asserted he was the only prime minister to have made an official visit to Ceuta while in office, having travelled there on 31 July as the crisis took hold.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The trust relied on the injury asserted by Alison Hoagland, one of its members.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
He asserted that Disney would not have successfully launched and scaled Disney+ without Fox’s immense content catalog, which included the “Avatar” franchise, “The Simpsons,” FX and National Geographic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
“I know exactly who I am,” she asserted again, but they were just more words to feel uncertain about; they were just more words to regret.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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All of them have top-flight or international experience, as well as physicality to their game, but even those additions did little to prevent Arsenal from asserting their superiority on Friday night.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The ICC expressed concern over those withdrawals, asserting that such countries risked undermining the collective pursuit of justice.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
“People wait their whole life to find their calling,” Casey’s teacher tells her about the scholarship, asserting that a natural fluency in science means it must be her destiny.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
At the time, a Romney spokesman defended the holding by asserting that the tax treatment of his IRA “is the same for Gov. Romney as it is for every citizen of the U.S.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Bikitsha protested, asserting there was no contraband in the suitcase.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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