as in to insist
to state as a fact usually forcefully
alleged that the restaurant chain was engaging in discriminatory hiring practices
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Recent Examples of allege
Nessel says her office received more than 40 consumer complaints concerning Thompson's business and says consumers alleged a pattern of the caterer's last-minute cancellations of wedding services and Late to the Lake's failure to issue refunds.
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Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
Fairlinked alleges that LinkedIn is now scanning for 6,222 extensions that could indicate a user’s political opinions or religious views.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
The Wayfarer Parties have not alleged that Lively is responsible for any statements other than the statements in her CRD complaint, which are privileged.
—Gma Team, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026
Wilson countersued, claiming Georgia is trying to penalize him for his decision to transfer and alleging that Georgia staffers falsely told multiple unnamed Power 4 programs that information.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
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Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
Fairlinked alleges that LinkedIn is now scanning for 6,222 extensions that could indicate a user’s political opinions or religious views.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
The Wayfarer Parties have not alleged that Lively is responsible for any statements other than the statements in her CRD complaint, which are privileged.
—Gma Team, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026
Wilson countersued, claiming Georgia is trying to penalize him for his decision to transfer and alleging that Georgia staffers falsely told multiple unnamed Power 4 programs that information.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
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Nowadays, the two positions blur together, but his father, Troy, and Harvard-Westlake coach David Rebibo insisted his aspirations were to be on the ball.—
Aaron Heisen,
Daily News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Shaban, an hour into his testimony, insisted again to Doucette that he was never charged with a crime.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2026
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The news comes after SpaceX and xAI—the company behind X and Grok—merged in February, a partnership which Musk claims could one day lead to data centres in Earth's orbit.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
5 Apr. 2026
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The younger daughter had arrived with foreknowledge of the role her older sister had already claimed.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Taunton will be defensively strong and leans on its captains – Joey Benoit (Brown), Corbin Melo (LF), Jeremy Knief and Dylan Keenun (SS) – to help a mostly new group of starters contend.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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Whether that amounts to genuine policy momentum or, as critics contend, an elaborate exercise in reputation management may be the defining question of the political economy of the AI age.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Trump has asserted himself as the nation's top law enforcer in his second term, personally directing the attorney general and other top officials on whom to investigate and whom to prosecute.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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The founders, who included Altman, Sutskever, Brockman, and Elon Musk, asserted that artificial intelligence could be the most powerful, and potentially dangerous, invention in human history, and that perhaps, given the existential risk, an unusual corporate structure would be required.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Allege.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allege. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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