adduce

They can neither attack nor defend, adduce facts or employ logic.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2019

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

Commentators are already attempting to adduce the reasons for the decline in obesity in this age, pointing to the dietary changes in preschool menus, awareness campaigns, and exercise programs that specifically target tots.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2014

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, nevertheless, extremely probable that he acquired it by studying the works left by Andrea at Mantua, for which I can adduce various arguments.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi

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

In this column Ross fails to connect the dots he adduces.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2017

Harrison’s work adduces a novel canon of modern art.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

The Bishop's evasions are sometimes painful, as when he tries to escape the force of Paine's argument, that Paul himself was not convinced by the evidences of the resurrection which he adduces for others.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

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

“The actions we’re taking are swift and strong, and we will take further action as the facts adduced in the investigation compel,” he said on Twitter.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021

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

Biographer Papini, adducing no factual discoveries, intends his book to be "a moral and spiritual portrait."

From Time Magazine Archive

Certainly the records show that they were exceptionally heavy in officers, one writer adducing as a reason that “the rebel officers had fleeter horses, so not so many of them were slain.”

From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Edwin Walford