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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

Nenshi and his supporters propound Canadian Exceptionalism: We would stage these Games as we do everything, which is to say on budget and without corruption or toleration of doping.

From New York Times ● Nov. 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

As the captain propounds powerful gibberish, the mutiny builds.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2020

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

The occult scientist has convinced himself that a consideration of the visible world propounds enigmas to man which can never be solved out of the facts of that world itself.

From An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner

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

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

A rule propounded by Francis Crick and known as the Central Dogma, was wrong.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

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

Nor is it permissible to start a lawsuit propounding the client’s thesis, simply hoping that some support for the claim may turn up.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 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

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

West Ham, however, are propounding the view, which Caborn supports and the Olympic Park Legacy Company is expected to approve, that incorporating a track is important symbolically.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2011

He was given to geometry also, propounding occasionally impossible problems in the Educational Times, but ornithology was his forte.

From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells