avouches

present tense third-person singular of avouch
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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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  • And in Western water law, that place in line — senior rights — guarantees that when drought hits, your share is protected.
    Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
  • No amount of preparation guarantees a flawless trip.
    Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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  • Now a controversial study claims that working from home worsened mental health.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • The video claims to show a FAB-500 aerial glide bomb destroying a UAV command post near Novopavlovka and a temporary deployment area in the Kherson region.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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  • Pick for freshness, with the goal of making wines with real structure, and the valley declares itself.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Instead, several of Kendall’s key allies are cowed by Logan’s intimidating presence — even Roman buckles under the pressure — and the media titan declares victory.
    EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
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  • The drone business boom Last year, Thunder Tiger’s Overkill drones became the first from an Asian company to qualify for the Pentagon’s Blue Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Cleared List, which certifies commercial drones for use by the US military.
    Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 18 June 2026
  • If Hoskins certifies the referendum, the court said, the map would be retroactively suspended.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026
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  • Now the glowing screen sits in each person’s hand, and every feed insists that its user is seeing something different.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
  • Lasdun, by contrast, insists on delivering a meticulous retelling of the Murdaugh case, complete with byzantine subplots involving the suspicious death of the family’s housekeeper and the murder of another local teenager.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
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  • Wizman asserts that competitors vastly overprice eyewear, claiming a $1 production cost for items sold for hundreds.
    Sharon Edelson, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • But Mike Mulvihill, president of insights and analytics for Fox Sports, asserts that the viewers have been there all along.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
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  • As the unfolding case of the Smithsonian attests, museum leaders occupy a pivotal position in American public life, balancing obligations to historical truth, institutional stakeholders, and the communities whose record they are entrusted to keep.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026
  • Club Kid is funny, and filled with deft jokes, but there’s a stylistic exuberance to it that attests to how Firstman wasn’t just thinking in terms of verbal punchlines.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Yet park rangers continued to cite Hubbard under that section, issuing two misdemeanor citations in May 2025, as well as a third that cited a different section of the ordinance, the most recent lawsuit alleges.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The charge alleges a person knowingly defrauded another by using false or misleading information to obtain money, property, credit or a loan.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
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“Avouches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avouches. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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