assertion

Example Sentences

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Scholarship requires every assertion to be supported by a document of some kind—a letter or a contract, say.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Lemon’s attorney rejected the assertion he did anything criminal.

From Los Angeles Times

The article was filled with with so many assertions about virus science that experienced virologists knew to be false that it “closed the book on him,” Moore told me.

From Los Angeles Times

But some not insubstantial number of these politicians’ listeners take their assertions both seriously and literally.

From The Wall Street Journal

In other works, broad gestures replace repetitive dots, blurring the imagery and changing a tense assertion of surface into predictable quasi-abstraction.

From The Wall Street Journal