adduce
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They can neither attack nor defend, adduce facts or employ logic.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 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
Writers in the show’s handsome brochure are at pains to adduce a present-day relevance for Red Decade art.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2015
You can adduce all kinds of comedy and critical distance to Ms. Cyrus’s public pose, but there’s an earnestness in it, too, an almost boring will to transgress.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2013
But Mayer did not adduce any fresh experimental evidence, and made no attempt to apply his theory to the fundamental equations of thermodynamics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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
First, Perez redeems the very notion of melodrama from its pejorative uses; then he adduces its mode of “exaggeration” to the historical underpinnings and enduring core of the cinema.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 17, 2020
In this column Ross fails to connect the dots he adduces.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2017
In verse 28 he adduces another reason, added to the example of Christ, for the love enjoined.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
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
Rather, they are “fully responsive to the arguments and evidence adduced by the relevant scientific experts.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
In Rome the advocatus diaboli, or devil’s advocate, had been established as early as 1587 to test the evidence adduced in support of the miracles claimed for those proposed for canonization.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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We prefer adducing Crashaw, and then giving a close rendering of the original: e.g.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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