assert

Example Sentences

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It deployed early-warning radar systems and built weather stations to assert sovereignty and get reliable forecasts for military operations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Doctors who use speech to harm their patients “can now assert a First Amendment right to carry on, regardless of these standards.”

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

Therefore, they assert, at least some of the gains reported by investors are due not to real advances in an asset’s value, but to inflation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

How a former and sitting chair would coexist, how markets would interpret any disagreement between them, and how Warsh would assert authority in that environment are all open questions.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

In place of the old system, Wanner said, have arisen “new ways of transmitting advantage that are beginning to assert themselves.”

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times