avouches

verb

present tense third-person singular of avouch
1
as in testifies (to)
to declare (something) to be true or genuine a note from my doctor avouching that my medical condition did indeed disqualify me from gym class

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2
as in claims
to state as a fact usually forcefully avouched that he had never cheated on his taxes in his life

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3
as in declares
to state clearly and strongly she tends to avouch her opinions in such a way as to imply that anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot

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  1. guarantees
  2. claims
  3. declares
  4. certifies
  5. insists
  6. asserts
  7. attests
  8. alleges
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  • Huang's departure guarantees that Nvidia will be operating under a cloud of transition for the foreseeable future.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Lenovo guarantees three major updates along with four years of security patches.
    — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of guarantees
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  • Google also claims the model outperforms competing systems across benchmarks covering agent routing, reasoning, ranking and multimodal understanding, while achieving the lowest calibration error.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026
  • All of these companies are being sued by PHI Health, a national air ambulance chain, which claims the employers are responsible for bills that health insurers haven’t fully paid, or have delayed paying.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of claims
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  • Its enduring contribution to the state, the university itself often declares, is rooted in the quality of the education students receive.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The settlement contains a provision denying wrongdoing except as expressly established in the judgment, which declares the district’s wristband ban unconstitutional.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of declares
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  • Detroit rival Ford Motor also certifies vehicles made by other manufacturers through its Ford Blue Advantage program.
    — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
  • My post-mastectomy plastic surgeon had once chaired the board that certifies plastic surgeons.
    — Mariska Breland, STAT, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of certifies
Verb
  • Brown, of Relativity, insists that adopting AI is a necessary move to maintain healthy peer-to-peer and global competition.
    — S. Sorrina Beecher, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
  • To our confoundment, the script insists that Gary, now retired, was the rare honest NYPD officer — and, weirder still, acts like that was obvious.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of insists
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  • The administration asserts wartime authority for the strikes, a legal premise human-rights organizations dispute.
    — Saul Hudson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Advertisement In District Nine, meanwhile, Niven asserts that incumbent Democrats were well liked and Republicans failed to produce a competitive candidate.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of asserts
Verb
  • The history of the Democratic-Republicans and the Whigs early in our nation’s history attests to that fact.
    — Robert T.F. Downes, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026
  • An accompanying recording of residents’ voices attests to the sense of community that the design fostered.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of attests
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  • The indictment alleges that McDonnell spent some of the funds paying creditors and Bellum Entertainment’s payroll.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Linda Gilbert, who was 78 at the time of the incident, alleges that hospital staff injected the wrong drug into her spinal canal during the procedure.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of alleges
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