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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

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

When all this comes to an end, bears aver, the market rally could peter out.

From Economist ● Apr. 23, 2015

The wind had strengthened, and powdery snow was streaming aver the ground like smoke.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Twitter further avers that Tweets have a maximum length of 280 characters.

From The Verge ● Aug. 4, 2022

M. Uzanne, in “The Book-Hunter in Paris,” avers that “the woman of fashion never goes book-hunting,” and he puts the aphorism in italics.

From In the Track of the Bookworm by Browne, Irving

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

He also averred to TikTok’s ability to collect data on users and create access to information on users’ phones.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 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

I averred that the fortifications there were not in a complete state of readiness, but we could imagine no other strategy.

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

In Washington elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, adviser on reconversion, prepared to break his peace, averring only in advance that the Government agencies which had wound the machine up should preside at its unwinding.

From Time Magazine Archive

The one who supplied the above lines expressed inability to understand their meaning, averring that they are "classical Hawaiian," meaning, doubtless, that they are archaic slang.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright