How to Use reassert in a Sentence

reassert

verb
  • In the 1950s, hard-bop guitarists like Grant Green and Kenny Burrell helped reassert the blues’s role at the core of jazz.
    Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But with the ceasefire, Hamas has reasserted its rule over Gaza.
    Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The franchise quarterback had to feel the need to reassert himself.
    Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • By the next day, the usual patterns of life in Davos had reasserted themselves.
    Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • On Sunday, the Tony Awards will try to reassert normalcy in 2022.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 June 2022
  • Of course, Tomas feels the urge to reassert his primacy in Martin’s life as a result.
    Vulture, 17 Oct. 2023
  • To Flores, the rush to comply seemed to betray a willingness on the part of the White House to reassert tough measures at the border.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The commander in chief should reassert that role and remind Abbott who is in charge.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • For any autocrat, this is a strange way to reassert control.
    Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2023
  • The actor stepped out at the 2023 Golden Globes with a jaunty haircut that helped reassert his status as—well, that guy.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Such a circular motif serves both to reassert a theme and to show, presumably, how much the characters have changed by the end of the film.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
  • For much of his rule, Xi has worked to reassert the power of the state and party, which had somewhat receded during the decades of reform.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Now, the Padres may very well be the fourth-best team in their own division, and need to make some moves to reassert themselves as an NL powerhouse.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Netanyahu hopes his visit will reassert his leadership both in the U.S. and back home in Israel.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 22 July 2024
  • For Republicans, a win by Mr. Walker would reassert the state’s red streak despite a blue surge two years ago.
    Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • But the reigning champs promptly reasserted control, opening the fourth quarter with a 16-4 run in just four minutes to put the game back out of reach.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • As the gap between the Wildcats and the rest of the league shrinks, this weekend presents an opportunity to reassert the programs spot at the top of the league pecking order.
    Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And, in the recent debate, Harris noted this record and reasserted her commitment to the act.
    Zachary W. Schulz, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But like Leontovych in his time, Ukrainians today are reasserting their culture to find hope and strength.
    Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The gun lobby never accepted any of that and soon reasserted its control of the state Capitol.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Can the Mavericks recapture their LA vibe and reassert control of the series?
    Dallas News, 2 June 2021
  • But within hours, the unresolved questions raised by the war against Hamas had reasserted themselves.
    Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2024
  • In its aftermath, the spending dynamics that were in place last month might well reassert themselves.
    Justin Lahart, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
  • President Biden came to office last year vowing to reassert U.S. leadership on the world stage.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
  • And that's actually an opening for the United States to reassert that kind of moral leadership.
    ABC News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • And to describe a thing can be to reassert its reality in the face of inflated claims and false preconceptions.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Even the choice of location could be read as a rebuke to the Kremlin, as Putin seeks to reassert Moscow’s former dominance over its neighbors.
    Michael Crowley, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
  • Amid the political chaos, violent groups on the left and right are deploying force to reassert their power.
    Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 30 May 2022
  • When people feel that they are being forced to do something, they are motivated to reassert their control.
    Tendayi Viki, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin is reasserting the principle that strong states can swallow weaker neighbors.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025

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