aver
verb (used with object)
to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
avers
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present tense formof aver (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“We can choose to live a passionate life,” he avers, “learning and growing far longer than we ever expected to.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
Thus, he avers that “the country above the Fayyûm for the distance of a three days' voyage resembles the country below it.”
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
