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Recent Examples of affirmation While the braille labels provide practical functionality for blind and visually impaired children, the affirmations and tactile elements invite all kids to engage with the product. Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025 Everyone did their best, sensing the love and affirmation from this audience of their peers, families and friends. Cory Trenda, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025 But as the novel progressed, her desire for affirmation only swelled. Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025 These laws compel an affirmation-only approach to treatment plans and impose a chilling effect on counselors otherwise willing to intervene, challenge, or outright attempt to disrupt a child’s feelings of dysphoria, as opposed to fueling their gender confusion. Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for affirmation
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Noun
  • In that sense, the song feels like a defining turning point in their career — both a declaration and a promise of what’s to come.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The region is also still recovering from major flooding in August of last year - Kipnuk, one of the villages hardest hit by the remnants of Typhoon Halong, received one of the first-ever federal disaster declarations for an Alaska tribe in the wake of that flooding.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The heist comes off as an acte gratuit—André Gide’s term for an action whose motivelessness is an assertion of freedom—and gives rise to the existential adventure of a hunted man on the run.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Then-Media School Dean James Shanahan rebutted the assertion, saying the school had never sought to influence the paper's content.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Michael’s insistence on keeping certain shots was becoming more pronounced.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
  • What’s more, despite the president’s insistence to the contrary, tariffs are driving up inflation, the note said, with the rate expected to hit 3 percent by December, a full point above the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent goal.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Affirmation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affirmation. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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