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Recent Examples of reassert
The surge in the past two weeks has seen Chinese equities reassert their influence over broader emerging-market gauges, and dented the performance of fund managers who had been running underweight positions in the biggest developing-nation economy.
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2024
Why are so many people invested in Jack Schlossberg, perhaps best known for making goofy little lip-sync TikToks, reasserting his family’s legacy?
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Sep. 2024
Lipshutz’s book arrives as Linkin Park reasserts their dominance in the hard rock world and proves their talent and popularity once again.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
But, despite the best efforts of the characters to disown and ignore their physical forms, their bodies stubbornly reassert their existence.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2024
Why are so many people invested in Jack Schlossberg, perhaps best known for making goofy little lip-sync TikToks, reasserting his family’s legacy?
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Sep. 2024
Lipshutz’s book arrives as Linkin Park reasserts their dominance in the hard rock world and proves their talent and popularity once again.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
But, despite the best efforts of the characters to disown and ignore their physical forms, their bodies stubbornly reassert their existence.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reassert
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President-elect Trump has reaffirmed his commitment to Hegseth as a nominee despite controversy.Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 15 Dec. 2024
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OpenAI reaffirmed this commitment on its very own website years later: Seeing no clear path in the public sector, and given the success of other ambitious projects in private industry, [OpenAI] decided to pursue this project through private means bound by strong commitments to the public good.Alex Heath, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2024
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The State Department has carved out loopholes for Israel that give the close American ally a pass on U.S. law restricting aid to foreign militaries over human rights abuses, a lawsuit from a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives asserted Tuesday.Ellen Knickmeyer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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That led associate Jeff Oh Kern to assert himself as the presumptive beneficiary, though he is not legally considered the owner of the property.Andrew King, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
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These Latino families have an answer Taliban affirms that stoning will be punishment for adulterers — especially women RFK Jr. is not alone.Marc Silver, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
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For Sanchez, placing second in the magazine's 10th annual Ultimate Guy contest affirmed his decision to stop drinking and drastically turn his life around.Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Dec. 2024
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White insisted the reigning heavyweight champion and GOAT of the sport isn’t afraid to fight anyone.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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First-year coach Dave Canales, who has insisted on evaluating the quarterback position on a week-to-week basis, said Young would start next week’s home finale against the Arizona Cardinals.Joseph Person, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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House Republicans have doubled down on their commitment to maintain the McCarthy-Biden agreement's defense spending levels, resisting calls to exceed the cap.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Being able to maintain optimal temperatures in greenhouses by supplying supplemental power from waste heat can save the agricultural sector money and energy use.Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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It is based in part, on grounds that charges in the indictment are unconstitutional since the charges are based on the exit tax regime which Ver contends is itself unconstitutional.Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D., Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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These kinds of legal tools can be empowering for voters of color in all states, voting rights advocates contend.Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Reassert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reassert. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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