adduce
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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
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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 Richard Crashaw
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