AFFIRMING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

affirming

verb

present participle of affirm

as in insisting

to state as a fact usually forcefully unwilling to affirm without further study that the painting is an original Rembrandt

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Relevance

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as in declaring

to state clearly and strongly our business partner affirmed his trust in us, and we in turn promised not to let him down

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Recent Examples of affirming Gender-affirming care for Kansas teens The gender-affirming care ban lawsuit was filed last May, and Folsom’s decision to grant an injunction comes after a two-day evidentiary hearing in November, where plaintiffs shared their stories and the judge heard from both sides’ expert witnesses. —

Matthew Kelly may 19, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026 Doe says gender affirming care is a lifeline for her daughter. —

Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 19 May 2026 The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered Colorado’s largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy despite threats that providing the care could lead to losing federal funding. —

ABC News, 19 May 2026 Amend its bylaws to trigger automatic relinquishment of privileges for any physician who violates Texas’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. —

Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 18 May 2026 Major medical groups generally support gender-affirming care for children with ongoing gender dysphoria – distress caused by the difference between a person’s internal sense of gender and the way the world sees them. —

Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 18 May 2026 The next year, the state became the largest to enact a gender-affirming care ban for minors. —

Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 16 May 2026 The subpoena had demanded Social Security numbers, birth dates, and medical records for all patients who received gender-affirming care in five years—revealing the government’s expansive investigative scope. —

Kimberlee Kruesi, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026 Several hospitals have received federal grand jury subpoenas regarding the provision of gender-affirming care to minors, according to a statement from NYU Langone, a step that suggests the Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation. —

Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 13 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for affirming

Verb

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated Wednesday that Moscow’s fundamental terms are unchanged, with Putin insisting that Ukraine pull its troops from the four regions — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — that Russia illegally annexed in September 2022 but hasn’t fully captured.

— Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
Then there are those who, as a rule, never touch the glands, insisting that the risks outweigh the benefits.

— Jolene Edgar, Allure, 14 May 2026