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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of aver.

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Examples

  • … where, as DTomlin averred USA/Israel relations as, “mother and daughter”, daughter is alleged to be the princess of espionage.

    Matthew Yglesias » Who’s Who in Iraq Advising? 2007

  • ... where, as DTomlin averred USA/Israel relations as, “mother and daughter”, daughter is alleged to be the princess of espionage.

    Matthew Yglesias » Who’s Who in Iraq Advising? 2007

  • Nothing had happened, yet they averred that something was going to happen.

    THE SEED OF McCOY 2010

  • Research has constantly highlighted that the trauma of exposed family infidelity is averred to be one of the most painful and difficult experiences that a couple can endure.

    Dr. Dahlia Keen: What is a "Schwarzenegger"? Dr. Dahlia Keen 2011

  • It was a pair of worn-out tatterdemalions that Captain Jones of the Mounted Police welcomed and fed, and he afterward averred that they possessed two of the most tremendous appetites he had ever observed.

    Trust 2010

  • The keen-eyed ones made out a dense cloud of smoke, which quickly disappeared, and which they averred was directly over the ship of the Sunlanders.

    THE SUNLANDERS 2010

  • Research has constantly highlighted that the trauma of exposed family infidelity is averred to be one of the most painful and difficult experiences that a couple can endure.

    Dr. Dahlia Keen: What is a "Schwarzenegger"? Dr. Dahlia Keen 2011

  • Research has constantly highlighted that the trauma of exposed family infidelity is averred to be one of the most painful and difficult experiences that a couple can endure.

    Dr. Dahlia Keen: What is a "Schwarzenegger"? Dr. Dahlia Keen 2011

  • He averred that all seven MPs and MCD councillors were involved in the massacre.

    Global Voices in English » Indian Elections ‘09: Where The Shoe Pinches 2009

  • Research has constantly highlighted that the trauma of exposed family infidelity is averred to be one of the most painful and difficult experiences that a couple can endure.

    Dr. Dahlia Keen: What is a "Schwarzenegger"? Dr. Dahlia Keen 2011

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