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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If species be permanent—if no education or training can educe new kinds—if the higher classes of animals are not the results of meliorations of the lower—whence did they come?
From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous
There fell a pause, Joan contemptuously staring away through the glimmering rain-drops, Austin desperately casting about for a conversational opening less calculated than its predecessors to educe rebuffs.
From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph
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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His pontificate, however, was not without its use; since that Providence, which still educes good from evil, made the scandal, which it occasioned to the Christian world, a principal spring of the glorious Reformation.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 by Prescott, William Hickling
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 Hedge, Mary Ann
Poor wretch, one sees what kind of meaning HE educes from Man's History, this long while past, and has got all the world to believe of it along with him.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01 by Carlyle, Thomas
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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If any one should here ask: Granted that from phenomena expressed in terms of energy no ultimate law can be educed, yet may not some other view of phenomena lead to other results?
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
It is even said that all the doctrines of Deductive or Syllogistic Logic may be educed from them.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack of educing raw emotions from himself and his audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To this it may be answered, that air and light are probably amongst the principal agencies of this kind which operated in educing the various forms of being.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert
I cannot go Where Universal Love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
From English Poets of the Eighteenth Century by Bernbaum, Ernest
This etymology has, I confess, a very great resemblance to the Millerian mode of educing Cucumber from Jeremiah King; but it is the most plausible which occurs at present to L. Kennaquhair.
From Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various
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 Darwin, Francis, Sir
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