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"We want Europe to assert its ambition in crewed spaceflight," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

“The government totally could assert itself and implement safeguards.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

West asserts that Gilkar and Ahmed pressured her to terminate the pregnancy; Gilkar and Ahmed assert that West initially agreed that termination would be best and even made an appointment before changing her mind.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

It remains to be seen whether Asher-Smith will choose to join Hunt in that event, which would give her the chance to assert herself as the outright most successful athlete in championship history.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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

Your editorial asserts that “data centers also generate scant pollution.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

In spirit, it asserts solidarity with the “least of these among us.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The defense ministry has asserted the legality of its operations in Guaviare.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

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 majority concluded that her asserted injury probably does not cross Article 3’s threshold.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

He suggested a middle-class hero of a sort as he struggled for success and asserted his rights.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

Nonreligious white liberals have typically downplayed the role of religion in the civil rights movement, but historian Aldon Morris is correct in asserting that the lunch-counter protests were not primarily a college phenomenon.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson