📚 Assert, verb. 🔉 /əˈsəːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (reporting verb): State a fact or belief confidently and forcefully. ❗️ Examples: 1. The company asserts that the cuts will not affect development. 2. He asserted his innocence. 3. These types of beliefs, he asserts, are closely connected to languages and texts. 4. Neither does he explicitly assert that our natural beliefs are true. 5. I would however assert that the belief in absolute truth requires an attempt to follow it as best as possible. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic