accept an assertion
Frequency: 6.810.2 per million words
To agree that a statement is true or valid.
Categories:
Examples (10)
- The committee was reluctant to accept his bold assertion without proof.
- If you accept the initial assertion, the rest of the argument logically follows.
- Initially, I refused to accept her assertion, but the evidence she presented was compelling.
- We cannot simply accept the assertion that the new policy will solve everything.
- Accepting such a sweeping assertion without questioning it is unwise.
- Why should the public accept an unsubstantiated assertion from the company?
- The scientific community will not accept this controversial assertion until it is peer-reviewed.
- The judge cautioned the jury not to accept every assertion made during the trial.
- Historians are now beginning to accept the assertion that the event was more significant than previously thought.
- It is difficult to accept the general assertion that technology is always beneficial.