reaffirm

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Recent Examples of reaffirm Bonta reaffirmed this in a joint statement with 10 other state attorneys general Thursday, writing that the federal government cannot commandeer states into forcing federal laws. Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025 On Tuesday, the Pittsburgh Pirates reaffirmed their offer from a couple of months ago that involved a package that includes two season tickets behind home plate at PNC Park — the team’s home venue — for 30 years and a host of other unique experiences and items. Larry Holder, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 In 1951, defense concerns prompted the U.S. and Denmark to reaffirm and expand the 1941 agreement permitting the U.S. to maintain military, intelligence, and coastguard operations on Greenland. James Patton Rogers & Caroline Kennedy Pipe / Made By History , TIME, 23 Jan. 2025 The cities, from Chicago to San Diego, have doubled down by reaffirming local ordinances to prohibit local law enforcement from assisting federal authorities in immigration removal operations. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for reaffirm 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reaffirm
Verb
  • In 2017, the federal appeals court for the Second Circuit, in affirming Mr. Ulbricht’s conviction, acknowledged the severe nature of the punishment.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Still, American democracy has proven to be resilient, and Congress, the branch of government closest to the people, was coming together to affirm the choice of Americans.
    LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The department lifted the shelter-in-place order around 9 p.m. Saturday night, but maintained a Level 2 public health advisory calling for sensitive populations to stay indoors.
    Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • These gains are fragile; in places where there is still ongoing transmission of an infectious disease, disease control programs must be maintained and never interrupted.
    Gavin Yamey, TIME, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Hamas has reasserted some control in the Gaza Strip in the days since the six-week ceasefire between Israel and the U.S.-designated terrorist organization went into effect.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement Trump provided no details on how the United States planned to go about reasserting control over territory and infrastructure that are part of sovereign Panamanian land — territory that the country’s leadership has vowed not to relinquish.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • When one poster on the Overton, TX Citizens Forum Facebook page reported in early January that the rooster tried to attack her husband outside the store, people were quick to defend Ol’ Red’s character.
    Rhiannon Saegert, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2025
  • At his confirmation hearing, senators will ask him to defend that dangerous, alternative reality.
    Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025

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