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

From such a league and covenant, seven confederate parts were affirming and defending their right to secede, and that by force of arms.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.