educe
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Every song in her discographical universe matters, and any surprise song she chooses will invariably educe outpourings of jubilation.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023
I think that there should’ve been more discussion of what we educe from his philosophy about these issues of privacy and personal liberty that appear discussed at length in his book.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2017
He spreads them out, classifies them; then pores, probes, weighs, analyzes, to educe both a composite picture of the author and a meticulous evaluation of the cumulus itself.
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We do not have to draw out or educe positive activities from a child, as some educational doctrines would have it.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
Again, the sciences all seek to educe general laws; dialectic investigates the nature of such laws, and the kind and degree of necessity to which they can attain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
Because terrorism educes such strong emotions, it has led to at least five myths.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2013
Mr. Crowther, a skilled publicist, lengthily educes the candidate's fitness for office from his record in other offices.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Moreover, this tender and pitiful Saviour is the Almighty One who rules both this and the invisible world, and who "from every evil still educes good."
From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher
The Mogul is indeed an educational establishment, but unfortunately it educes the wrong set of faculties.
From The Night Side of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
I cannot conclude my letter better, than by assuring my dear ——, that such is the trust and confidence we all repose in the Being, who out of evil still educes good.”
From Samboe; or, The African Boy by Mary Ann Hedge
In 2013, the Serbian player Viktor Troicki was given an 18-month ban, which was later educed to 12 months, for declining a blood test at a tournament.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
He educed a knowing chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib.
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I recalled what I could of how I had been educed, at age twelve.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Could that mighty Potentate have been got up, think you, by a committee of gentlemen, and those drawings educed by proffered prizes?
From Spare Hours by John Brown
Something good in the way of inculcation may be educed from this rather biting sonnet.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack of educing raw emotions from himself and his audience.
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Better then 'to spare the future man many moments of painful retrospection,' by educing this sense of utility, 'while the time and opportunity of improvement remain unimpaired.'
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg
The task of educing him was given to a promising young sculptor who lived here.
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
He, too, believed in man's natural goodness, and held that true education is not so much the infusion of what is foreign to, as the educing of what is native in the child.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
This view of latency collates a lot of facts—secondary sexual characters in each individual; tendency of latent character to appear temporarily in youth; effect of crossing in educing talent, character, etc.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
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