reaffirm

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Surely smart people should be bothered by the intellectual dishonesty, even if it might reaffirm their beliefs.

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Quick take

To affirm again.

Meaning at a glance

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verb

To affirm again.

verb

To bolster or support.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reaffirm.

verb

To affirm again.

verb

To bolster or support.

Example sentences

Surely smart people should be bothered by the intellectual dishonesty, even if it might reaffirm their beliefs.

Read some of the Chronicle of Higher Ed forums and then come back to reaffirm that statement.

We no longer need to reaffirm anything over texts, because everything meaningful happens in person.

In some the perceived strength of this statement would help them reaffirm their similar believes through the a bandwagon like effect.

Edit: And yes please reaffirm what cowards you are by down-voting instead of replying.

The place to go to reaffirm your hatred of people who you disagree with.

I talked him out of it, and we got a lawyer to reaffirm his disability claim.

I'm surprised they didn't reaffirm their commitment to using the Internet to further the cause of making politicians seem useful.

They daily reaffirm to each other that their only hope for life is to rely on their brothers inside of this team they are on.

I just wanted to reaffirm what you're saying about the deduction on lower value homes.

You can't just reaffirm that without evidence and an argument.

This only goes to reaffirm my belief that it's insane.

Quote examples

To be honest I did not expect to reaffirm anyone's faith in anything except irony -- that is, the irony of people thinking that the "Russian mafia" thing is a joke.

> "We've long said the GNU GPL is enforceable, and of course we're pleased to see another court reaffirm that fact," said FSF France president Loic Dachary in a statement.

More disturbing is the arguments made by Gymnasium headmasters that argue immigrants would not benefit from being permitted in this higher "class" of school because it is dominated by a different culture (aka lets reaffirm our racist environments) and that they were not as capable academically.

This article is giving me an immense urge to call my fiancee, tell her how incredible she is just for not giving a shit about cliques and status, and then spend half an hour talking about anime and board games just to reaffirm how "insufferably" nerdy we both are.