assert
verb (used with object)
to state with assurance, confidence, or force; state strongly or positively; affirm; aver.
will assert
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future tenseof assert.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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I will assert that everyone, outside a few Cruella De Vils, has some empathy, no matter how you define it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
But with her victory now in hand, Mexicans will look to see how Sheinbaum, a very different personality from mentor and current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will assert herself.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
That's not what I am expecting to happen, though, because I actually think Villa will assert themselves and get the win they need.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024
Members of this tradition will assert that the Divine is personal and caring and that God has entered the narrative of our history to realize God’s purpose through humanity.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The one will assert that the poet could not know, and the other that he would not know, what was established at Olympia.
From Problems in Greek history by John Pentland Mahaffy
