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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reasserting
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Clark’s delivery was confident, polished and emotionally resonant — drawing clear comparisons to early-2000s country stars while asserting her place as a rising voice in the genre.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
11 Nov. 2025 -
The demonstrators, some wielding bats, appeared to be asserting the jurisdiction of the Edo people’s ceremonial king, Oba Ewuare II, over the region’s cultural patrimony.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Nov. 2025
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There’s nothing anti-tech about insisting that invention and fairness coexist.—
Gerard Scimeca,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Several tech players are already constructing private energy plants for their own use as part of their data center buildouts, so there is nothing radical about Democrats insisting on tying approvals for data centers to bearing the cost of enhancing the public grid.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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If, as Kingsnorth claims, gender-affirming medicine is an assault on human nature and the human body, then so, too, are pacemakers and prosthetic limbs, or Botox and condoms, for that matter.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
11 Nov. 2025
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries voiced firm support for Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday, affirming Schumer’s leadership despite internal party divisions over the latest spending deal.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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As competitors resolve technical issues and new entrants pursue next-generation propulsion technologies, GE faces mounting pressure to invest heavily in R & D while maintaining its recent well-above-average margins.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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While maintaining a healthy weight plays a role in mitigating cardiovascular and diabetes risk, the measurement alone overlooks the importance of muscle as a predictor of healthy aging and longevity.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
10 Nov. 2025
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The lawsuit also accuses the MD-11 model and its CF-6 engines of having a troubling safety history, alleging that the aircraft has been linked to multiple catastrophic failures and ranks among the least reliable commercial planes still in service.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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Last month, Berry’s family filed a lawsuit against the city of Sacramento and RT alleging wrongful death alleging the agency neglected to ensure the safety of their passengers.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Members of the caucus emerged from a two-hour meeting on Thursday declaring that the 47-member group is coalescing around a unified strategy rather than splintering into factions, which could mean the government funding fight lasts well beyond the current 37 days.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Bailey's recognition comes as the magazine celebrates 40 years of declaring the honor, which began in 1985 with Oscar winner Mel Gibson.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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Second, the large amplitudes of the gravitational waves needed to generate the events that Weber was claiming a detection of would provide more energy than could possibly cosmically exist in any-and-all forms of radiation combined; the Universe as a whole ruled his interpretation out.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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Orbán, however, denied this, claiming that the Croatian government would need to enlarge the pipeline to meet Hungary’s needs.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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His extraordinary journey from utter isolation to human connection is revealed in the Oscar-contending documentary Ghost Boy, directed by Rodney Ascher (Room 237, A Glitch in the Matrix), winner of the Audience Award at SXSW in the Visions category.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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But the tariffs spooked American businesses, prompting a court challenge, contending that the president had exceeded his authority in imposing the tariffs.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Reasserting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasserting. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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