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Recent Examples of assertively
Taste and add salt and pepper; the milk should be assertively seasoned.
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CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
These early reports highlight how the mode may behave more assertively than before.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
With the exception of SHoP’s assertively detailed, if financially troubled, extravaganza, the pall of clunkism has enveloped even projects that aspire to high design.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
His confrontational style inspired a generation of young conservatives to assertively defend their values and to mock liberals, even in sometimes incendiary ways.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assertively
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And the United States, the world’s leading producer of both oil and natural gas, is now aggressively pressuring countries to keep buying and burning fossil fuels.—
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As Webster continued aggressively yelling, Rathbun reached over the barricade and shoved him back.—
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Therefore, seeing multiple green aircraft together strongly suggests serial (repeat) production, not one-off prototypes.—
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The United Arab Emirates has been accused by human rights groups of directly supplying the RSF with weaponry, an allegation the country strongly denied, while Saudi Arabia and Egypt have allied with the SAF.—
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Since its debut, the initiative has been quietly but determinedly building physical bases in Lagos and Kenya, creating tangible spaces where female artists, producers, and engineers can access resources that Tems herself had to fight to find.—
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For long-haul trips, consider the Southern Hemisphere for a jolt of vitamin D in a rugged, determinedly uncommercial spot, or take a dip in a memorable, albeit temporary, Japanese onsen.—
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Fundholz was speaking more firmly and resolutely than before.—
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Their three arcs form a sweeping epic of sapphic immortality — resolutely old-fashioned in detail but thrillingly contemporary in the telling.—
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Instead, dip a cloth or cotton balls in acetone and blot firmly on the remaining polish.—
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His other go-to bogeyman, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, is now firmly in his lame-duck era as his term ends this spring.—
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On Thanksgiving weekend in Washington, the script felt grimly familiar.—
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But now that all writers are more or less required to be influencers, the debate over the right way to post your poems seems grimly prescient.—
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In that context, traders were in a decidedly risk-on mood this morning.—
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Faced with some stiff competition, one savvy float-building team at this year’s Rose Parade still managed to reel in a Guinness World Record title by setting its sights on something decidedly fishier.—
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“Assertively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assertively. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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