- present tense form of aver (3rd person singular).
avers
Example Sentences
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“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
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
W—— avers, in a spirit of enthusiasm, that the Catfish between Second and First Lakes is quite similar in parts to the immortal Avon, upon which Shakespeare canoed in the long-ago.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites
