Asserting
Both words in one sentence
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Brown's first advert features her getting annoyed with people assuming she's naked because her shell is chocolate brown, asserting that "only a fool would think [she'd] show up naked".
Source: Advertising / M&Ms -
One episode of the Swedish Pippi Longstocking television show had the eponymous character asserting that her father had been captured by pirates because he sent her messages with bottles — something which most of the townspeople understandably regard as being utterly preposterous.
Source: Message in a Bottle - Any film or TV show clip later parodied on FG will have hundreds of comments on YouTube mistakenly asserting the video is a reference to Family Guy, even if the age of the clip makes it obvious that it originated decades before Seth MacFarlane was even born.
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Show and Asserting. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/asserting/show
Asserting & Show. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/asserting/show>.
Show or Asserting. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/asserting/show.
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