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For fans, the special is not an apology, it's a reassertion - of his voice and his refusal to be flattened.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Many even piled into the replies, uproariously enthused about the reassertion of what they already believed in their hearts.
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2025
On a deeper level, the re-imagined blast-from-the-past Bumbershoot felt like the reassertion of a specific Seattle identity amid a period a great and often uncomfortable change.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2023
This movie poster almost looks like a Kehinde Wiley portrait, a radical reassertion of tradition, a disruption of the narrative we’ve been sold.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2023
As planned, the black residents applauded Brown’s reassertion that Greenberg should not be granted another delay in repairing his properties.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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