state it
Verb
Meaning
state it (third-person singular simple present states it, present participle stating it, simple past and past participle stated it)
(obsolete) To assume state or dignity.
Examples
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.
I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.
But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.
Ukraine is a very difficult country, very difficult for us. In its current state it is hostile towards us.