asserted

IPA: ʌsˈɝtʌd

adjective

  • stated, declared or alleged, especially with confidence but no proof
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Examples of "asserted" in Sentences

  • In comments to reporters on Thursday, McCain asserted that I can tell you that it is succeeding.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The three gangsters, with the clique they lead, have again asserted their tyrrany and thrashed all the weaklings and feeblings in the forecastle.
  • Chaplin asserted that our familiar argument that games themselves are an adolescent medium -- one I recently trotted out myself -- is a straw man.
  • “The ultimate cause of atheism, Newton asserted, is ‘this notion of bodies having, as it were, a complete, absolute and independent reality in themselves.’”
  • Prescription drug abuse, the administration asserted, is "America's fastest growing drug problem, driving significant increases in drug overdoses in recent years."
  • “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.

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