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
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
Of arms alluding to the Profession or pursuits of the original bearer, I shall adduce but few instances, as they generally exhibit bad taste, and a departure from heraldric purity; e. g.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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
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
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
The authors might have adduced more egregious examples than that second one, and from the other party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Rather, they are “fully responsive to the arguments and evidence adduced by the relevant scientific experts.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
Other examples could be adduced, but I don’t have an extra 20,000 words to spare.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2019
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
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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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The naval history of the enemy abounds in them, but I will content myself with adducing only a few, as specimens of the rest.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
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