- present tense form of aver (3rd person singular).
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
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
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
Keats takes for his motto lines from that poem telling of a night wakeful but none the less cheerful, and avers that his own poem was the result of just such another night.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
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