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Yet — and this was absolutely astonishing for its time — Moby Dick becomes the ultimate asserter of reason.

From New York Times • May 2, 2020

The constant in his life has been incessant work, and you need a few spreadsheets to chart the 50 or so companies that he either owns or co-owns as a patent asserter.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2013

The chief politician of the bench was a great asserter of paradoxes.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various

And such, on this point, is the invariable testimony of Palæontologic science,—testimony so invariable, that no great Palæontologist was ever yet an asserter of the development hypothesis.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

The most stubborn asserter of equality has not failed to own this, as he has stood among the crowd before a throne.

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James