adduce

Example Sentences

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They can neither attack nor defend, adduce facts or employ logic.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2019

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

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

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

She challenged history to adduce a case where a woman had wielded so much power so wisely and so disinterestedly.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.