assertions
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- 1Plural of assertion.
The report's central assertions were challenged by several independent researchers.
He backed up his assertions with data drawn from a decade of fieldwork.
Note
A plural that counts claims rather than the act of claiming. Each one is a separate statement that can be checked or rebutted. The word often carries a hint of doubt, as in unsupported assertions. It also has two technical homes: programmers place assertions in code to test expected conditions during debugging, and auditors speak of the assertions a financial statement's preparer makes.
assertions is a form of assertion
assertion, noun: A declaration or statement that someone puts forward as true. Full entry
- Forms
- assertionassertions plural
- Spelling
- assertion → assertions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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