support an assertion

Frequency: 7.012.5 per million words

To provide evidence or reasons that help to show an assertion is true.

assertionVERB + assertion

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support

Examples (10)

  • The facts presented do not support your assertion.
  • You must provide concrete evidence to support your assertion in court.
  • The researcher gathered extensive data to support her assertion about the new species.
  • He made a bold claim, but failed to support his assertion with any credible sources.
  • Finding reliable statistics to support an assertion is a crucial part of academic writing.
  • I will use historical documents to support my assertion during the presentation.
  • The article strongly supports the assertion that regular exercise improves mental health.
  • What further proof can you offer to support your assertion?
  • Without more data, it is difficult to support the assertion that the market is recovering.
  • She has consistently supported her assertion with logical arguments.