noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bold statement/assertion/claim
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In a surprisingly bold statement, the couple said they had no intention of marrying.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
deny
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A lawyer representing the company currently servicing the loan denies Aikens' assertions .
make
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When you make an assertion , what you are doing is telling your reader something you think is true.
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Leapor makes general assertions about marriage in this poem partly because she can not make further particular observations without offending Octavia.
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Therefore we can not make the apriori assertion that private ownership and unfettered operation is always more efficient.
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Fred is the person who makes confident assertions like this.
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Paragraph 8 of the council's statement of claim makes a similar assertion in relation to the article of 24 September.
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Often jealousy comes from making judgements based on assertions that we believe to be true but belie the reality of the situation.
support
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Figures from his own department, however, do not support these assertions .
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The fact is that the hon. Gentleman can not support his assertions on the basis of the available evidence.
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Evidence is not hard to find to support these assertions .
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The evidence supporting the assertion would presumably be the available statistical data.
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Few other authorities have supported Jennings' assertion and it has not found acceptance by most practitioners of government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alternatively the violation can be inverted; like a black comedy, or the assertion of a stark revenge or retribution.
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I just had to cast doubt on his assertions.
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It was a little less than half enquiry, and a little more than half assertion .
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The only thing that is constant is the assertion of difference.
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This assertion was a crushing blow to the hopes of the Seminoles and the blacks.
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Unfortunately, as we have seen in Chapter 2, this assertion has not been true for more than twenty years.