adduce

Example Sentences

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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

But, from considerations which we will adduce later, there is good reason to believe the story to be of Persian origin.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis