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"And no matter what you may think, Mr. Kennedy. And I revere your name. You're not here to propound your case for censorship," Connolly said.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2023

But the plays don’t hector or propound moral lessons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

“We can’t wait to propound searing questions about the finances of these individuals and these groups.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

Leaders like FDR, JFK, Wałęsa, and Nehru demonstrated that democrats can propound powerful liberal-national narratives.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2020

I was not free from apprehension that he would come back to propound through the gate, “And sixteen?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

As the captain propounds powerful gibberish, the mutiny builds.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2020

Joe Haines, who was press secretary to Harold Wilson, the last-but-one Labour leader to win a majority, propounds a fourth, better option.

From Economist ● Jan. 14, 2016

Whereas once I lauded this program, now I am absolutely disgusted by the moral nihilism it propounds.

From Time ● Apr. 1, 2013

The Conclusion to his book of Renaissance essays, published in 1873, was seized on for the ardour with which Pater propounds a philosophy of beauty.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2011

This is almost the same idea that Hesiod propounds.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas

Many economists who propounded the inevitability of business cycles, including Kuznets, Hayek, Paul Samuelson and James Tobin, have won Nobel Prizes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Kohn addresses the failures of “behaviorism” — as propounded by the psychologist B.F.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Before sinking into insanity, Friedrich Nietzsche propounded a theory that still reverberates in the intelligentsia: There are no “facts,” “only interpretations.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022

A rule propounded by Francis Crick and known as the Central Dogma, was wrong.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

The two-spheres theory as generally propounded makes antipodes impossible, as it confines all dry land within one hemisphere.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Even more infuriating, however, is a pervasive sense of arrogance and disorder, which now includes public officials and others propounding aggressively, insultingly strange vocabularies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021

While Bailenson has been propounding this rather unsexy vision of virtual reality for years, it’s worth noting that he now has a vested interest in it as well.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2016

Revisionist takes on characters have a pleasing audacity, but Morrison isn't so much propounding a thesis as approaching a classic with a different level of political awareness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2015

West Ham, however, are propounding the view, which Caborn supports and the Olympic Park Legacy Company is expected to approve, that incorporating a track is important symbolically.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2011

So propounding questions without being able to answer them, he at length addresses himself to the waterman, saying: “Jack, did you observe a gentleman at the head of the stair?”

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne