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adduce

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


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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

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

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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