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This “is unacceptable. Without gas service, a simple but essential home-cooked meal becomes much more difficult,” they aver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

But many practitioners of Ayurveda or other traditional Indian medicine aver that the churning process used to prepare lassi breaks down the glial proteins in the dairy, making it even easier to digest.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

More important, they aver that inequality causes stress without admitting the possibility that some other factor is contributing to both, or indeed that social breakdown contributes to inequality.

From Economist ● Jun. 14, 2018

The speakers were divided into six groups which aver aged about 176 words each, or more than 1,000 words a day.

From Washington Times ● May 17, 2017

“I aver, sir, 1 have so little conception of the direction of this interview' that I cannot offer any reply whatsoever.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

This gentleman avers that everything that I said about persecution is applicable to the Catholic Church only.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

Then, as now, Ensign averred that he had incomplete information, and could only convey what he had been told.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2025

A blockade, he averred, was merely a necessary step to put down an internal insurrection.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

Besides, CRS averred, it could chase some people away from applying for benefits they are entitled to.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

Anyone who believed that, she averred, "has never been anywhere in the developing word - there are too many of the absolute poor, and you just can't leave it to laissez-faire".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2022

“Might she have been pregnant before she was taken upon the ship, as she always averred? Did she speak to you ever of my parentage? Whose child I am?”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

What did that even mean?—something akin to the counsel averring that “there is no sky.”

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2017

I’ve heard from more than one reader over the years averring that an orchestra’s role is simply to play the music of Beethoven, Brahms and their ilk: Forget contemporary stuff, much less diversity.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2016

U. S. delegates protested against theft of exclusive news, scoops and beats, averring that the newspaper which discovers news first should have the sole right, for the day at least, to print the news.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prosecutors kept the Bible out of discussion by averring that the Bible did not constitute the rule of faith except as interpreted by the Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I have made a mistake—" But he quickly interrupted me, averring: "You have made no mistake.

From The Old Stone House and Other Stories by Anna Katharine Green