assertion
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The owner of the building, the Canadian asset manager Brookfield, rejected that assertion, saying it does not have any outstanding sums due to BHV Marais.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Pub historian Charo Havermans agreed with that assertion.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Darcy’s sources said Weiss’ objections were not confined to a single factual assertion but ranged far more broadly, and that some on the team were unsure the report would even air at all.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
A White House official, in a statement, said that “any assertion Washington D.C. construction projects had anything to do with a decision about El Salvador TPS are false.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Gracious to a fault, Fowler comforted Lawrence with the gratifying assertion, surely untrue, that “for a long time Rutherford and Chadwick were nearly convinced that your explanation was right.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The repeated assertions at the top of the prospectus that “our co-founders have each pledged to dedicate 80% of their personal equity in Anthropic to philanthropic causes” are effectively meaningless.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Meanwhile, Britain’s Labour government stalled on corroborating its ally’s assertions while Labour held its annual conference and rallied to a new prime minister, Andy Burnham.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
But to do so overlooks the thrilling, genuinely thorny assertions contained in several of the season’s best films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Tuchel refuted assertions his decision to recall Palmer and Alexander-Arnold was an admission he'd got his World Cup squad wrong.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
With the passage of time Kelvin would become more forthright in his assertions and less correct.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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