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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

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

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

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

And he adduces out of the N. T. only Jo. i.

From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon

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

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

Biographer Papini, adducing no factual discoveries, intends his book to be "a moral and spiritual portrait."

From Time Magazine Archive

Purkinje, an eminent professor of physiology, who read a paper before the university of Breslau, adducing nine standard types of impressions and advocating a system of classification which attracted no great attention.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various


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