Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Confidently stated to be so but without proof; alleged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective stated as a fact.
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- adjective
stated ,declared oralleged , especially withconfidence but noproof - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
assert .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective confidently declared to be so
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Examples
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“The security situation in Iraq is truly a good one,” Keane asserted from the dais of the Willard Continental Hotel ballroom on June 11, a day after a car bomb ripped through a market, killing 30 people in Nasiriyah.
Guarding the Surge Narrative While Iraq Burns « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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The three gangsters, with the clique they lead, have again asserted their tyrrany and thrashed all the weaklings and feeblings in the forecastle.
CHAPTER XLI 2010
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I read back through my posts and the ONLY thing that I firmly asserted is that the purpose of government is to protect our rights.
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“The ultimate cause of atheism, Newton asserted, is ‘this notion of bodies having, as it were, a complete, absolute and independent reality in themselves.’”
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Chaplin asserted that our familiar argument that games themselves are an adolescent medium -- one I recently trotted out myself -- is a straw man.
Kicking The Dog SVGL 2009
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Prescription drug abuse, the administration asserted, is "America's fastest growing drug problem, driving significant increases in drug overdoses in recent years."
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I read back through my posts and the ONLY thing that I firmly asserted is that the purpose of government is to protect our rights.
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Chaplin asserted that our familiar argument that games themselves are an adolescent medium -- one I recently trotted out myself -- is a straw man.
Archive 2009-04-01 SVGL 2009
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In comments to reporters on Thursday, McCain asserted that I can tell you that it is succeeding.
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Mauclerc's practices were bad, Watin asserted; and it was on the basis of his inferior experience that he accepted the theories that he did.
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