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

And there were few whose relationship with jazz was as meaningful; you can adduce clear relationships between his written and oral phrasing and the playing of John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach and Albert Ayler.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2014

They could adduce the custom by which, as long as their memory ran, nuns had been allowed to leave their convents under conditions.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen