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  • noun Plural form of affirmation.

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Examples

  • Reprogramming gets a bad name from touchy-feely, New Age associations with the term affirmations.

    Survival of the Savvy Rick Brandon 2004

  • Reprogramming gets a bad name from touchy-feely, New Age associations with the term affirmations.

    Survival of the Savvy Rick Brandon 2004

  • Reprogramming gets a bad name from touchy-feely, New Age associations with the term affirmations.

    Survival of the Savvy Rick Brandon 2004

  • Reprogramming gets a bad name from touchy-feely, New Age associations with the term affirmations.

    Survival of the Savvy Rick Brandon 2004

  • In opposition to the motion, the plaintiff submitted an MRI which showed a bulging disc and affirmations from the plaintiff's treating physician and neurologist which were not based upon recent examinations.

    Second Department 2008

  • In opposition to the motion, the plaintiff submitted an MRI which showed a bulging disc and affirmations from the plaintiff's treating physician and neurologist which were not based upon recent examinations.

    Personal Injury 2006

  • Imagination, not political courage or piety, is what finally ennobles the book: We become less and less interested in the anti-Southern, antisentimental, antiaristocratic, anti-everything-under-the-sun elements…and more and more concerned with its affirmations, which is to say we become more and more concerned with Jim.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Imagination, not political courage or piety, is what finally ennobles the book: We become less and less interested in the anti-Southern, antisentimental, antiaristocratic, anti-everything-under-the-sun elements…and more and more concerned with its affirmations, which is to say we become more and more concerned with Jim.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Yes and No in affirmations and denials -- as if our word for it were not enough, and we expected others to question it -- springs from that vicious root of untruthfulness which is only aggravated by the very effort to clear ourselves of the suspicion of it.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • He writes books about growing durians, organic gardening and other subjects, including a project on one-word affirmations called Switchwords.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

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