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Maria affirmed that she has complete faith in the other members of the team.

Chris smiled and sort of nodded, a response that Walt and Billie took as an affirmation that he would visit them in Annandale before the summer was out, and then they said their goodbyes.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

"Said you were looking to find credit for about thirty families." Papa and Uncle Hammer neither affirmed nor denied this.  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976

"First day Walter comes back to school'll be his last," I affirmed.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

It may not be too much to affirm, on the whole, (the people being then in the first stages of joyless deportment, and the offspring of sires who had known how to be merry, in their day), that they would compare favourably, in point of holiday keeping, with their descendants, even at so long an interval as ourselves.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

I recalled that great affirmation, that proclamation, that promise: Always to shine, to shine everywhere, to the very depths of the last days ….  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Was the same man who made me sign a form affirming my purity suggesting that I let Maxon have it if he wanted it?†  (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

In chapter 27, Colton affirms a rendering of Jesus painted by Akiane, a child who also visited heaven at age four.†  (source) Todd Burpo, Heaven Is for Real, 2010

I can get used to these daily positive affirmations.  (source) Colleen Hoover, Hopeless, 2013

We were able to reaffirm our findings on the catheads each Sunday that Reverend Thomas spent with us.†  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

Phedon the fact affirm'd, whose sovereign sway Thesprotian tribes, a duteous race, obey; And bade the gods this added truth attest (While pure libations crown'd the genial feast), That anchor'd in his port the vessels stand, To waft the hero to his natal land.†  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

significance to* By God, I hadde lever than my shirt That ye had read his legend, as have I. Dame Partelote, I say you truely, Macrobius, that wrote the vision In Afric' of the worthy Scipion, <17> Affirmeth dreames, and saith that they be 'Warnings of thinges that men after see.†  (source) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

But the infection Hans Castorp knew was going round had even influenced the Freemason's clear intellect, robbing him of his laughter, leaving him seriously vulnerable to the inflammatory charms of slaps exchanged in the name of honor; in addition, though he had his good days, which were more like teasing setbacks, the old affirmer of life had turned gloomy watching the inexorable deterioration in his health; feeling intensely ashamed, he cursed it and despised himself when it forced him to take to his bed every few days now.†  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

The court's ruling affirms the principle of freedom to expression.

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.†

A few places, like the Farmers Trust Bank, had GOLDWATER FOR PRESIDENT signs in their windows, sometimes with a bumper sticker across the bottom saying AFFIRMATION VIETNAM.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

...and after class, he asked me what I was thinking about, and I told him. He listened, and he nodded and made "affirmation" sounds.  (source) Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999

...purposeful and life-affirming schooling and work (jobs and more jobs);  (source) Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running, 1992

The ritual affirmed who we were despite the humiliating restrictions outside our door.  (source) Leon Leyson, The Boy on the Wooden Box, 2013

I've never been more loved and appreciated than when I tried to "justify" and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs;  (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

But I find comfort in it, in the idea of a pattern, of a narrative of my life taking shape, like a photograph in a darkroom, a story that slowly emerges and affirms the good I have always wanted to see in myself.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed, 2013

Consider sharing this book with someone you know who could use affirmation of God's existence and love.  (source) Todd Burpo, Heaven Is for Real, 2010

Actors and musicians resisted by creating makeshift stages in hidden courtyards and performing plays and skits and holding concerts, affirming that beauty and culture could exist even in the midst of the horrible circumstances of the ghetto.  (source) Leon Leyson, The Boy on the Wooden Box, 2013

My chance encounter had affirmed a golden rule in journalism: everyone has a story, so get out of the office and talk to people.  (source) Steve Lopez, The Soloist, 1995

Then again the drums; and once more the men's deep savage affirmation of their manhood.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

In its cooling, life-affirming fluorescence, I paced up and down the tidy aisles, stocked with American products in Asian flavors.  (source) Ling Ma, Severance, 2019