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[uh-vur] / əˈvɜr /


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This “is unacceptable. Without gas service, a simple but essential home-cooked meal becomes much more difficult,” they aver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

But many practitioners of Ayurveda or other traditional Indian medicine aver that the churning process used to prepare lassi breaks down the glial proteins in the dairy, making it even easier to digest.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

More important, they aver that inequality causes stress without admitting the possibility that some other factor is contributing to both, or indeed that social breakdown contributes to inequality.

From Economist ● Jun. 14, 2018

The speakers were divided into six groups which aver aged about 176 words each, or more than 1,000 words a day.

From Washington Times ● May 17, 2017

I am sensible that I believed one Way once but I aver that our College’s Defeat is due to an imperfect Understanding of this Question.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

“We can choose to live a passionate life,” he avers, “learning and growing far longer than we ever expected to.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“I seen him ride,” one local avers, “and he ain’t no tenderfoot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

At every turn, there’s a caress waiting, even if it’s a gambit for affection: “I got a lot on my mind, and I gotta share the pain,” Saint Levant avers.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

Twitter further avers that Tweets have a maximum length of 280 characters.

From The Verge ● Aug. 4, 2022

Cousin's name is on the title-page; but not one dialogue, the Leader avers, did he translate; it even doubts his ability to translate one.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

Massaro said Trump's stake at the course "ultimately rests in a trust in the US, and as they have averred, the president is the beneficiary".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

A blockade, he averred, was merely a necessary step to put down an internal insurrection.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

A pregnant woman, the attorney general averred, may be refused a treatment if it “has the potential to harm unborn lives—an issue not implicated” when treating nonpregnant women.

From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2024

Besides, CRS averred, it could chase some people away from applying for benefits they are entitled to.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

But, then, a voice within me averred that I could do it and foretold that I should do it.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

What did that even mean?—something akin to the counsel averring that “there is no sky.”

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2017

I’ve heard from more than one reader over the years averring that an orchestra’s role is simply to play the music of Beethoven, Brahms and their ilk: Forget contemporary stuff, much less diversity.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2016

U. S. delegates protested against theft of exclusive news, scoops and beats, averring that the newspaper which discovers news first should have the sole right, for the day at least, to print the news.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prosecutors kept the Bible out of discussion by averring that the Bible did not constitute the rule of faith except as interpreted by the Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

But my companion averring that in such places she could often make a good bargain, elbowed her way into the scene of action.

From Discipline by Mary Brunton




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