assertion
Example Sentences
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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.
In other works, broad gestures replace repetitive dots, blurring the imagery and changing a tense assertion of surface into predictable quasi-abstraction.
Federal officials have alleged it was an act of self-defense when Good drove her vehicle toward an officer — an assertion under dispute.
From Los Angeles Times
The family of Alejandro Carranza Medina, 42, who was killed on September 15, rejected assertions there were drugs on his vessel and said he was a fisherman doing his job on the open sea.
From Barron's
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