Assert
Assert verb - To state clearly and strongly.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- It is also worth noting that many Aspies assert that in many cases the social interaction issues are not that they don't "read" the signals well, but rather that they learn to read multiple non-verbal signals.
Source: Useful Notes / Asperger Syndrome - Thief II: The Metal Age During the missions, you occasionally hear and read references to "the Baron", who's absence has allowed Sheriff Truart to assert his dominance over the city.
Source: Cryptic Background Reference - However, programmers will assert that "binary" is just a means of expressing numbers, not a language, while the language expressed entirely in binary that the computer can read is "machine code," not "binary."
Cite this Source
Read and Assert. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/assert/read
Assert & Read. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/assert/read>.
Read or Assert. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/assert/read.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "assert" and "read" have occurred on timeline