- present tense form of aver (3rd person singular).
avers
Example Sentences
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“I seen him ride,” one local avers, “and he ain’t no tenderfoot.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
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
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
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 Samuel Adams Drake
