affirm
verb (used with object)
to state or assert positively; maintain as true.
were affirming
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past progressiveof affirm.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were affirming, farming and framing.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
The mainstream view holds as truth that these people were affirming the supremacy of the culture whose clothes they’d adopted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
The editors at Charlie Hebdo republished the same cartoons to mark the start of a long-awaited trial of alleged accomplices in the 2015 attack, saying they were affirming France’s democracy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
The authors of this text were affirming that democracy required more than just an elected government.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2018
You spoke, on the contrary, as though you were affirming something that was quite settled.
From Bijou by Gyp
