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as in insisted
to state as a fact usually forcefully
was tearfully averring his innocence
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2
as in declared
to state clearly and strongly
averred that she didn't need any help choosing her own clothes
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White and McGregor have insisted the former will return to the Octagon in 2025, but perhaps this fight with Jake or Logan could precede his return to the UFC.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024 -
In the House, a majority of Democrats voted against the bill after House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted on adding the provision to ban transgender medical care for children.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Dec. 2024
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Dozens of people have been infected around the country, California has declared a state of emergency and the spread among livestock has begun impacting the food supply.—
Michael Loria,
USA TODAY,
25 Dec. 2024
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Bill Lawrence has been around long enough to hear the comedy, the multicam sitcom — everything, really — declared dead.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Dec. 2024
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To that end, although the complaint references alleged text messages from Bayless, the more explosive and damning allegations are told through Faraji’s recollections.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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Just days before the vote, the complaint alleged, the employee in the auditor’s office violated ethics laws by sharing confidential information that portrayed the ambulance service negatively.—
Jacob Orledge,
ProPublica,
6 Jan. 2025
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Third Down Conversions Another area where the first-round winners asserted their dominance was on third-down conversions.—
Giovanni Malloy,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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In the end, Myanmar's reform project did not fail, as some have asserted, but was brutally derailed.—
Derek Mitchell,
NPR,
23 Dec. 2024
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That professed skepticism clashed with his record in office.—
Henry Farrell,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Dec. 2024
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That professed confidence in each’s own instincts and indifference to most dissident opinions is how both led the country and made some pretty colossal missteps.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
11 Dec. 2024
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Carter’s press secretary Jody Powell contended that journalistic attack dogs foamed at the mouth.—
Amber Roessner / Made by History,
TIME,
29 Dec. 2024
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Attorneys for the city contended that the Municipal Court's recording practices do not violate the state law and that Legal Action of Wisconsin was trying to expand the scope of the law to include recording more hearings than required.—
Alison Dirr,
Journal Sentinel,
27 Dec. 2024
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Not everyone was on the same page, as some commentators maintained that Lively had behaved rudely to Kjersti Flaa in that infamous interview and had a problematic past.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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Even amid stressful late-game scenarios, Washington’s quarterback, whose EKG might have appeared flatlined since he seemingly never gets rattled, maintained his calm approach.—
Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
23 Dec. 2024
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Since the pandemic was affirmed, the WHO reports that around 777 million people have been infected by the virus worldwide.—
Gord Magill,
Newsweek,
21 Dec. 2024
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Since the pandemic was affirmed, the WHO reports that around 777 million people have been infected by the virus worldwide, giving the illness an overall worldwide mortality rate of a little less than 1 percent—much higher than common ailments like the flu.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
19 Dec. 2024
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