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US
/əˈsɝt/
]
[ UK /ɐsˈɜːt/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈɜːt/ ]
VERB
-
to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
Before God I swear I am innocent -
insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized
Women should assert themselves more! -
postulate positively and assertively
The letter asserts a free society - state categorically
How To Use assert In A Sentence
- Once tawhid is accepted as the first axiom of thought, the goal of life becomes bridging the gap between the asserter and the asserted. William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam and the Goal of Love
- A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block. The Sun
- Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
- Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
- An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
- The preoccupation with the problem of evil, asserts Nietzsche, enervates the human spirit.
- Now, moreover, with the nation in an economic downturn, is not the time to assert the urgency of passing referendum legislation.
- It ain 'fittin' fo 'you-all to say anythin' ag'in 'Dr. Morgan, whatever he may _se_-lect to do," asserted Bud, combatively, and Pink hastened to hedge. A Tar-Heel Baron
- These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible.
- Mr Vermes, who was close to that research effort, finds good reason to criticise it for slowness and carelessness—but no ground to assert a conspiracy.