assert
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- v state categorically
- v to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- v insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized
Women should assert themselves more! - v assert to be true
The letter asserts a free society
- And the press corps, which has been deferential through repeated prime-time pressers in the East Room, began to assert itself as never before in his tenure.
- With Hindu militancy on the rise and the lower castes increasingly trying to assert their rights, Christian missionaries are caught in a political maelstrom.
- Others assert that eco-neglect violates Jesus' call to care for the least among us: it is the poor who inhabit the floodplains.