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What is the verb for assertive?

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assert
  1. To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
  2. To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
  3. To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to
  4. (computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Giorgio continues to assert that the pyramids were built by ancient aliens.”
      “They come to court to assert their rights, not to exercise some form of consumer choice.”
      “We appreciate that you're a nice guy, but you have to assert yourself when it's necessary to do so.”
asseverate
  1. To declare earnestly, seriously, or positively; to affirm.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They asseverate with vehemence, that in all the seven-and-thirty plays there is no such thing as a native woodnote wild.”
      “It has more solemnity than declare, and more composure and dignity than asseverate, which is to assert excitedly.”
      “As to whether she was young, middle-aged or only well-preserved, no one was in a position to asseverate.”
asserted
asserting
asseverates
asserts
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assert
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Gandy asserts that surveillance is a system based on rationalism, which is illustrated in various practices at Jones and Smith.”
      “The teacher's certainty about his role, largely the result of alienation, asserts hierarchy.”
      “The new films ultimately could quicken the recovery of burn victims and patients with skin ulcers and bedsores, the team asserts.”
asseverated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of asseverate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He asseverated that faith empowers, faith abides, faith surmounts every obstacle.”
      “If requested we furnish certification for the safety of the worker through asseverated skill.”
      “A case in point, therefore, and as Dekker and Yan Schalkwyk asseverated, the policies failed to utilize a model based on cultural pluralism.”
asseverating
  1. present participle of asseverate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When we affirm that a disciple is ninety years old, we are asseverating that he is an initiate of the ninth initiation of minor mysteries.”
      “Admittedly, asseverating the very notion of complete freedom goes against the very purpose and scope of that to which the notion refers.”
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