were affirming
- past progressive of affirm.
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
SOCRATES: And would you not put in the fourth class the goods which we were affirming to appertain specially to the soul—sciences and arts and true opinions as we called them?
From Philebus by Jowett, Benjamin
