How to Use aver in a Sentence

aver

verb
Definition of avernext
Synonyms for avernext
  • He averred that he was innocent.
  • And some aver that crime isn’t the problem at all, but the need for police reform is.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
  • On the face of it, this would suggest that Floridians do not, as so many have averred, possess a unique brand of weirdness compared to the rest of the country.
    — Chris Wilson, Time, 24 July 2019
  • The management avers that a 52-week season is no longer viable, and that the orchestra needs to reduce to a 40-week season to survive.
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Both Ellen and Ken aver that sage and marijuana are both sacred medicinal plants.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022
  • But the numbers and message in the Biden budget explain why that won’t be as easy politically as Fed officials aver.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • The worst that could happen, the money masters averred, was that investors would be lulled into reckless investments, taking on too much risk in the belief that the dangers of the marketplace had been tamed.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Our spies also aver that the virus wasn’t developed as a biological weapon and that Chinese officials weren’t aware of the virus before the initial outbreak.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Is the America so deeply divided between the powerful and the powerless as throughout his book Mr. Fraser avers?
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Albert Einstein, the greatest nuclear physicist of the 20th century and an unlikely fashion muse, once averred.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2018
  • German lore averred that two trees planted in front of the house of a newly married couple assured happiness and a locust, according to the Victorians, was symbolic of love beyond the grave.
    — National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2016
  • The newspaper publisher and lexicographer Noah Webster averred that the pestilence emanated from the ash of a volcanic eruption in Sicily.
    — Frederick Kaufman, The New Yorker, 13 May 2020
  • One cynical academic averred that politicians will always opt for showy handouts rather than unsexy long-term solutions, however inefficient that may be.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • But the good news, optimists aver, is that China's authoritarian political system enables swift and decisive action.
    — Clay Chandler and grady McGregor, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021

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