averring

On March 26, Mr. Carlson was quoted on China’s flagship nightly news broadcast, averring that “it turns out our government has for some time funded biolabs in Ukraine.”

But I couldn’t decide if the painting critiques our political malaise or simply shrugs its shoulders, averring that life goes on, despite transformative events at the ballot box.

The President, at first, seemed confused about the basics of the constitutional system, averring that he “can’t imagine the courts allowing it.”

On Thursday morning, as stocks were falling again, he lashed into the Fed for a third time, averring that it was “out of control.”

He used Mr. Kim’s exact locution in averring a joint commitment to a Korean Peninsula “without nuclear weapons and nuclear threats.”