assertion
Example Sentences
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She also questioned the prime minister's assertion that "no pressure existed whatsoever" on the Civil Service to approve Lord Mandelson as the UK's ambassador.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
“There is nothing credible that she will offer the government, and the assertion that she would provide information is simply a smoke screen.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
A year later, how has that assertion held up?
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2026
Prosecutors must prove Blanche’s assertion that the informant program, which began in the 1980s, was used to further extremism rather than fight it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
This assertion generated immediate merriment among the restaurant owners and far finishers assembled in our living room.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing assertion
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