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adduce

[uh-doos, uh-dyoos] / əˈdus, əˈdjus /
VERB
affirm
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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It would require a forensic accountant to adduce the amount extracted, but how much did Al Lord make from my payments?

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2021

The rhetorical challenge is to adduce a unity—akin to herding cats—among a multitude of self-centered interests and causes.

From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019

There are so many Moore characters I could adduce as evidence of the formidable sensitivity and range of this human Stradivarius of an actress.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2015

And there were few whose relationship with jazz was as meaningful; you can adduce clear relationships between his written and oral phrasing and the playing of John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach and Albert Ayler.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2014

It would not be easy to adduce a stronger case of this character.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

Ms. Rosenwein adduces all the figures in the Old Testament who were said to have lived to fantastic ages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

But back to your observation: when a student adduces a YouTube video, in terms of professorial ethics, how do you respond?

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2022

In this column Ross fails to connect the dots he adduces.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2017

Harrison’s work adduces a novel canon of modern art.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

He adduces very strong evidence from manuscripts of high authority and of great antiquity to prove what he says.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by T. O. Russell

Ultimately, the huge numbers adduced to support this and other assertions throughout the book seem intended to shock rather than to support serious causal argumentation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Later appraisals adduced that the enigmatic piece was an apron, a garment or a military banner, before analysts in 20th century Vienna agreed: It was a headdress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

He wanted a sort of mathematical calculation that could help us determine whether a sentence was true or false based on the evidence adduced for it.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024

The Russians sneered, “The embassy does not feel called upon to furnish any proof in addition to that already adduced before the commissioner.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022

In his version of Book I of On the Revolutions the arguments that could be adduced against the movement of the Earth are given a more prominent position.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

At one point, Avenatti reportedly tried to cast doubt over his former client's trustworthiness by adducing Daniel's belief in the paranormal.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

As Reynolds points out, in the story Dupin dismisses mathematics as a means of adducing abstract truths about morals or human motivation.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2020

Cohn sorted the Republicans into three buckets, adducing historical antecedents for each.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2015

But scores of auditors were sidling through the exits before the Nominee finished adducing details to prove his point.

From Time Magazine Archive

He even ventured at one point to controvert a statement of Nick's, adducing the doctor as his authority, at which Nick waxed mightily indignant.

From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang




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