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affirmed

verb

past tense of affirm

as in insisted

to state as a fact usually forcefully unwilling to affirm without further study that the painting is an original Rembrandt

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as in declared

to state clearly and strongly our business partner affirmed his trust in us, and we in turn promised not to let him down

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Recent Examples of affirmed The Colorado Supreme Court affirmed them in perpetuity in 2002. — Anna Alejo, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Former Fox security consultant Aaron King affirmed this and said Thomson did not abuse alcohol. — David Folkenflik, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026 Seventeenth-century Dutch art specialist Arthur Wheelock affirmed that Sotheby’s attribution of the painting to Rembrandt is now widely accepted. — News Desk, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026 The high court affirmed that the Missouri congressional map passed in 2022, which gives Republicans a 6-2 advantage over Democrats, should be used for the November election in a per curiam ruling. — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026 It was dismissed in June 2025, and the California Court of Appeals affirmed that decision earlier this month. — Lauren Wilson, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2026 The vote followed two earlier votes in which the experts affirmed that the test appears safe and effective for use by people age 50 and older. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 That usually means an immigration judge has ordered their removal after a hearing, including cases when immigrants fail to show up, and the decision was affirmed on appeal or not appealed. — Ryan J. Foley, Los Angeles Times, 21 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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The president and his allies have insisted that existing liability laws offer enough protections.

— Jeff Masonand Michael Shepard Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Trump has repeatedly insisted that the damage to the Reflecting Pool resulted from intentional vandalism, claiming that vandals cut a gash hundreds of feet long in the pool’s protective lining.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of insisted

Verb

Before Kenya reported its case, there had been no active cases outside Congo since Uganda declared its outbreak over in late August.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Busan Mayor Park Chun Jae-soo declared the festival open, delivering his first opening-night address as mayor.

— Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of declared

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The polling failure will serve to give further ammunition to the Brazilian right and the Bolsonaro camp, which have long alleged that the nation's leading pollsters turn in work biased in favor of Lula and his Workers Party.

— David Unsworth, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
McLemore burned the minivan, the district attorney’s office alleged.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of alleged

Verb

In 2002, 25% of disability benefit recipients claimed primarily for a mental health condition (or a learning or neurodevelopmental condition); by 2025, this had risen to 45%.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026
Bidh further claimed that the Saudis were the first to leave once the front’s collapse began.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of claimed

Verb

Blacknell contended that four different medical professionals treated Linton after the crash and none of them concluded the wreck was tied to a bipolar episode.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
The business contended that the statute was vague and said that handwashing would qualify as a medical action under the act, according to the judge’s order.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of contended

Verb

The release marks a significant milestone for the studio in a strategic partnership with Almuslim, first announced more than two years ago, aimed at adapting several of his popular literary works into film and television projects.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
On Monday morning, the Nobel Prize for medicine was announced.

— Jeffrey S. Flier, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026

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