averring

present participle of aver

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for averring
Verb
  • The litigation in that case resolved hundreds of lawsuits alleging the company ignored red flags while filling prescriptions for opioid pain medication.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • India doesn’t have explicitly uniform intellectual property rights like the US, but courts have routinely sided with stars alleging such violations.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The president signed an executive order in September declaring antifa a domestic terrorist organization.
    Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025
  • That included openly declaring his hatred for the LDS church.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Official sources denied rumors of a collapse in the country’s healthcare system due to the outbreak, insisting that hospitals had the capacity to admit patients.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Farley’s personal approach—insisting on a welding summer job for his own son—mirrors Ford’s institutional initiatives.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Maybe so—and a coming wave of insider stories attesting to Weiss’s difficulties in asserting her authority strikes me as the most inevitable outcome of this affair.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The 20-year-old crucially broke Anisimova’s serve in the opening game of the second set after asserting more aggressive play.
    Frank Nunns O'Connell, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Scammers will call or text consumers claiming to be a legitimate institution, such as a bank or a government institution.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Treat any message claiming your Meta account or other services will be disabled within days with caution.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Warning signs, per federal guidance, can include someone quickly professing love, claiming to live far away, requests to move conversations to other apps and having bad grammar.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Brady concluded his own explanation by professing his love of the game.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Trump has been proclaiming for years that his political opponents should be locked up, but there is a gulf between loudly alleging criminal behavior and amassing the evidence necessary to prove the elements of an actual crime.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • On Thursday, the day after Kirk died,, for example, the X account of AI chatbot Perplexity was confidently proclaiming that Kirk was still alive.
    Emma Woollacott, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Averring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/averring. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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