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UK
/ɐsˈɜːʃən/
]
[ US /əˈsɝʃən/ ]
[ US /əˈsɝʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
How To Use assertion In A Sentence
- A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block. The Sun
- These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible.
- Just last year, pinkos raised a stink over the NCERT's deleting of certain offensive and unauthenticated assertions from history books.
- This sits badly with the Act assertion that all data be ‘obtained fairly’.
- Many of Rogers' assertions and specific rebuttals (which form, in effect, a counter-reading of Kornbluh's book) are best answered by Kornbluh himself.
- Each time he gets a black cube it confirms the assertion that all six cubes are black.
- Tony Abbott certainly believes if you repeat it often enough a baseless assertion becomes fact.
- The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone. Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party
- They might also expect a return visit from an official with a search warrant wishing to verify the truth of the destruction assertion. ill lich TSA subpoenas, threatens two bloggers who published non-classified airline security directive Boing Boing
- Many would no doubt take issue with me on that simple assertion, citing personal reasons why it is not so.