assert

In a sentence

Six example sentences with assert, each labelled with its topic.

• Counsel continued to assert that the contract was signed under duress, repeating the claim in every filing since March.

  Law

• It is easy to assert that knowledge requires certainty, and far harder to defend that claim against a single counterexample.

  Philosophy

• The pitch deck asserts that the market will triple within five years, though the only source is the founders' own survey.

  Startups

• The paper asserts that the signal is real, though the authors admit their detector has never seen anything like it.

  Science

• The candidate asserted that the bridge would be finished by spring, a claim the engineers quietly doubted.

  Politics

• The coach asserted before the series that his bench was deeper, and the fourth quarters proved him right.

  Basketball

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