Sample Sentences for
assert
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assert as in:  asserted her opinion that...

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The defense also asserts that the defendant has no previous record of crime.
asserts = says
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    She asserts that her opponent lacks managerial experience.
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    She uses statistics to support her assertion that the regulators are barring competition in the industry rather than preventing abuses.
    assertion = claim
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    Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself;  (source)
    assert = state or say
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    So Ralph asserted his chieftainship and could not have chosen a better way if he had thought for days.  (source)
    asserted = made a non-verbal statement claiming
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    He claimed that he'd used only his hands to punish POWs, an assertion that would have riled the men who'd been kicked, clubbed with his kendo stick and baseball bat, and whipped in the face with his belt.  (source)
    assertion = statement
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Because Leila does not question these assertions.†  (source)
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    The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth.  (source)
    asserts = says (something is true -- especially something disputed)
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    Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?  (source)
    assert = say (that something is true)
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    She persisted in asserting that she had not taken the brooch.  (source)
    asserting = saying
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    "I've done some nice things out on Long Island," asserted Mr. McKee.  (source)
    asserted = said
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    My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again.  (source)
    assertion = statement (claiming something happened)
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    He thought they were both right in one of their assertions but wrong in the other.†  (source)
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    "If she goes, I go," Mama asserts, but the guard has already turned his back on her.†  (source)
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assert as in:  asserted her authority

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She says women should assert themselves more.
assert = be forceful in exercising influence or rights
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    To have a well-behaved dog, it is important that you assert your dominance.
    assert = be forceful in exercising influence
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    Dill's maleness was beginning to assert itself.  (source)
    assert = to be forceful in exercising influence
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    He seemed to have moved beyond his need to assert so adamantly his autonomy, his need to separate himself from his parents.  (source)
    assert = forcefully put into action
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    Even now he dared not assert himself but held the Bible uncertainly in his hands and asked, "What would you have me read, sir?"  (source)
    assert = be forceful in exercising influence or rights
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    There is no stage you comprehend better than the one you have just left, and as I watched the Jeeps almost asserting a wish to bounce up the side of Mount Washington at eighty miles an hour instead of rolling along this dull street, they reminded me, in a comical and a poignant way, of adolescents.  (source)
    asserting = forcefully exercising
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    "Who you callin' punk?" B. J. had asserted without fear.  (source)
    asserted = forcefully exercised rights
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    Walter was notified that he was being sent to Poland, to continue the assertion of Germany's authority over both the Poles and Jews alike.  (source)
    assertion = process of exercising (power and rights)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Louie looked up, saw a face he didn't recognize, and felt an upswell of dread, knowing that a new guard would likely assert his authority.  (source)
    assert = forcefully put into action
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    She pushed his hands inward and up, her mind battling, and finally asserting her right to do this.†  (source)
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    Ender had been awarded the rank of admiral, too, and this was one of the few times he asserted the privileges the rank implied.  (source)
    asserted = exercised forcefully
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    Maybe he was comforted by Louie's assertion of control, protected thereby from the awful possibilities that his imagination hung before him.  (source)
    assertion = process of exercising (power and rights)
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    He paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: 'How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?'  (source)
    assert = forcefully put into action
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    She kept asserting everything was 'mock' this and 'mock' that.†  (source)
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