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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

Commentators are already attempting to adduce the reasons for the decline in obesity in this age, pointing to the dietary changes in preschool menus, awareness campaigns, and exercise programs that specifically target tots.

From Slate Feb. 28, 2014

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

I could adduce still other instances, for example the following: 7.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

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

Writing in the show’s catalogue, the critic and curator Russell Ferguson adduces Mediterranean history in Italian literature for the former and Plato’s cave for the latter.

From The New Yorker May 6, 2019

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

From New York Times Dec. 2, 2017

Of this last, Niebuhr, Briefe, II, 399, adduces very striking instances from the Pope's own temporal dominion.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher

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

Amanda Hardy, an attorney representing Jinks, issued a statement saying they respect the decision but “believe the judgement was inconsistent with the evidence adduced at trial.”

From Seattle Times Oct. 25, 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 Richard Crashaw




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