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English
Etymology
From re- + assert.
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reassert (third-person singular simple present reasserts, present participle reasserting, simple past and past participle reasserted)
- assert again
2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda.
2006, Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard, Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution, Yale University Press, page 120:They were tied to a revived religious class that took advantage of the end of anticlerical despotism to reassert Islamic views and practices and to regain some of their former sociopolitical status.
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