REASSERTED Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

reasserted

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past tense of reassert

as in reaffirmed

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Trial court rulings — affirmed by a Supreme Court majority in March — said parents have the right to demand information about their child’s gender identity at school.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Anthropic did not respond to an immediate request for comment, but Coxon’s warnings were surprisingly affirmed by Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s alignment scene lead, and Samuel Marks, who runs the company‘s scalable oversight division.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

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Hoskins asserted that a referendum petition could not be used for congressional redistricting.

— DAVID A. LIEB, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
In April, the Actors Committee of the China Federation of Radio and Television Associations released a statement condemning such infringements and asserted that AI platforms needed to comply with the laws and strengthen their compliance rules.

— Ling Wei, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

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By the time the Nielsen ratings came in, however, the president had already declared victory for the convention and himself.

— Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
Midway through the third period, he was officially declared out for the remainder of the contest.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026

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In the initial complaint obtained by USA TODAY, Said claimed she was placed on an all-male team that included Gutman and two other crew members.

— Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
The proposal would have directed money from the Treasury Department’s Judgment Fund to compensate people who claimed they were politically targeted by federal investigations during the Biden administration.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026

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Washington, as well as OpenAI and Anthropic, have alleged that Chinese companies stole American intellectual property by training their models on the outputs of frontier US models, a process known as distillation in the industry.

— John Liu, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
Furthermore, the defendant attempted to recruit individuals from the German Ministry of Defense and the defense industry for her own purposes, prosecutors alleged.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

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Penn State regularly contended for New Year’s Six bowls but lost the close, important games so often that fans braced for heartbreak.

— The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
The museum has contended California’s new law is unconstitutional, which California is contesting.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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The new equipment was announced at an industry conference in Wuxi, China, on September 2 and covers several key stages of semiconductor production.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
After starting, the student said, Carleen leaders announced the program would actually take nine months to complete.

— Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026

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