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How to pronounce “assert”
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Pronunciation guide for assert
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of assert with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Steven Pinker
assert preposterous beliefs?
- Definition summary
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce assert
Steven Pinker
assert preposterous beliefs?
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “assert”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
- To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
- (reflexive) To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
- (programming) To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
- (electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
- [Noun]
- (programming) Synonym of assertion.
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