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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

“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

In its pursuit of ideological even-handedness and narrative expedience, “Come Sunday” doesn’t always propound or dramatize these questions perfectly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2018

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

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

How did a pluralistic nation that propounds democratic values and practices come to this?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2017

Whereas previous jihadist narratives were all about “resistance” to imagined enemies, IS propounds what Mr Winter calls “the propaganda of the winner”.

From Economist ● Aug. 13, 2015

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

Indeed, the theory he propounds is not necessarily consistent.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer

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

Although the court ruled unanimously for the Sacketts, the three liberal judges were joined by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh in articulating different reasons than the one propounded by the majority.

From Salon ● May 27, 2023

And it ends with one of them stepping on a butterfly and changing the course of history — 20 years before the chaos theoretician Edward Norton Lorenz propounded the “butterfly effect.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

That’s mostly due to the controversial “attachment parenting” method propounded by pediatrician William Sears and his wife, Martha, in their best-selling “The Baby Book.”

From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020

There is a persistent myth, incidentally–and one propounded in many serious books–that Ussher’s views dominated scientific beliefs well into the nineteenth century, and that it was Lyell who put everyone straight.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

Fighting open white supremacism, defending human rights and the rule of law, propounding international cooperation, rejecting narrow nationalism, so many of these debates seem to belong to another age.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2020

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

The message Mr. Psihoyos is propounding is that each voice and each act, no matter how small, counts: Outrage generated by “The Cove” helped reduce dolphin killings in Japan to 6,000 a year from 23,000.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2015

I discovered that I had been in the habit of propounding "yes" and "no" queries, merely as excuses for five-minute orations.

From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Amos R. Wells