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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

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

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

It is impossible to adduce any clearer or stronger proof of its primitive antiquity than this.

From The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices by Anonymous

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

We have already had occasion to point out that Paul’s pleading with Philemon, and the motives which he adduces, are expressions, on a lower level, of the greatest principles of Christian ethics.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

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

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 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

But scores of auditors were sidling through the exits before the Nominee finished adducing details to prove his point.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reasoning with the coastguardsman only had the effect of his adducing the authority of one Captain Jones in support of the accuracy of his data.

From The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll by Various