averred

past tense of aver

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for averred
Verb
  • Noboa has insisted the fuel subsidy cut is here to stay.
    Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Altaylı denied the accusations and insisted that his comments had been taken out of context.
    Afşin Yurdakul, Time, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bryan previously described himself as a libertarian and declared that his music wasn't political.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In the 1880s, a New York heiress with an active and unorthodox social life was declared a habitual drunkard, placed under a legal guardianship, and later confined to an asylum.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • McLaughlin further alleged that Trebach blocked agents of Customs and Border Protection from carrying out their duties, and that led to her arrest.
    Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Rosie O'Donnell has alleged that her iconic, show-stopping, infamous on-air fight with The View cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck was an inside job.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gandy asserted a cumulative injury to multiple body parts, with the idea that wear and tear over his 15 seasons gradually worsened his health.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • What can be said about the Kalimotxo that hasn’t been pretentiously asserted by an undergraduate who just learned about it?
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Israel unleased a ferocious response that has claimed the lives of more then 67,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Yankees claimed a 9-6 comeback win, and announced their presence in the series with authority.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That concept, Nix professed in July, is what will keep him from enduring an off year in Year 2.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The White Lotus actors met at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles in 2007 and professed their love for one another just a few weeks later.
    Caroline Blair, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • He was never charged with any wrongdoing, Mamdani and other opponents have contended that Cuomo is still unfit to serve in office.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Khan and his lawyers have contended that Netanyahu and his allies are exploiting a vulnerable woman in order to discredit the case against the Israeli leaders.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Many pundits mistakenly proclaimed the direct-to-consumer option would only benefit the uninsured and not help the majority of Americans who have private insurance coverage with prescription drug coverage.
    Bobby Jindal, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • When his first film, 2009’s low-budget Daddy Longlegs, was playing at a single theater in New York, Safdie stood by the entrance wearing a sandwich board, one that loudly proclaimed THIS MOVIE EXISTS!
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Averred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/averred. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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