Related Clues:

• Claim to be true
• Suggest for consideration
• Affirm positively
• Report or maintain
• Declare with conviction
• Assert as accurate
• Assert with confidence
• Affirm solemnly
• Toss out an explanation
• Declare solemnly
• Declare definitively
• Say seriously
• State emphatically
• Assume as a fact
• Assume as an axiom