avers

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Stephen Carter, author and Yale law professor, avers that “Democracy demands dialogue and dialogue flows from disagreement.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

In 1981, he avers, there were no school shooters, no one was on meds, no one was a snowflake, security at LAX was lax and there was still a Tower Records on Ventura Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2023

Indeed, the great ecologist E. O. Wilson avers that to be effective in some scientific fields, it's actually best not to be too bright.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2022

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

From The Verge • Aug. 4, 2022

Holding their staves between thumb and finger until perpendicularly poised, they let them fall, departing, the tradition avers, in the direction in which each pointed—Pepperell to Kittery, Gibbons to Muscongus.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams