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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

After all, each house adapts rules to its own purposes; “Chicago” propounds rules with a soft authority, a gentle firmness.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2017

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 Thomas Inman

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

He characterized as “fantasy” another idea, propounded by British author Robin Mackness in the best-selling 1988 book “Oradour: Massacre and Aftermath,” that the Nazis attacked Oradour in search of gold stolen by the resistance.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023

We believe that much of what has been discovered in the last few decades, by archaeologists and others in kindred disciplines, cuts against the conventional wisdom propounded by modern “big history” writers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

One idea, which remained in textbooks well into my own school days, was the baked apple theory propounded by the Austrian Eduard Suess just before the turn of the century.

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

Increasingly, leading forestry experts are propounding a view dissonant to a public accustomed to the idea of preserving the country’s wild lands: Sometimes you have to cut trees to save trees.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

“There are so many moving parts here, and we need to prioritize what we respond to and what we propound. We have to be proactively propounding an alternative vision that recalls American core values.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2017

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

When in an ebullient mood, he grabs the nearest microphone and begins propounding the theory that only he can save the world from imminent destruction.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2011

This alone should suffice to demonstrate how far he was at that time from accepting and propounding some of the main tenets of the so-called Jeffersonian democracy.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard