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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

He distorts, deforms, and with his strong, fluid line modulates his material as he wills, but he never propounds puzzles in form, as do the rest of the experimentalists.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

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

There is no relation between what’s being propounded in council chambers and what’s going down in the streets.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2023

As with Giles Martin's previous efforts, the remixed "Revolver" clearly benefited from his interest in breathing new life into the original, highly compressed mixes propounded by his father in the 1960s.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2022

This book very elegantly propounded the belief that genes were the key components of living cells and that, to understand what life is, we must know how genes act.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

According to Magnet, Thomas is an intellectual heavyweight propounding the farsighted vision that “there is no government solution.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2019

“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

The course was chosen partly because it affords an opportunity of propounding the following questions: Is lapse of time, amount of exercise, or pleasure, the cause of habit?

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.