adduce

They can neither attack nor defend, adduce facts or employ logic.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2019

There are so many Moore characters I could adduce as evidence of the formidable sensitivity and range of this human Stradivarius of an actress.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2015

Writers in the show’s handsome brochure are at pains to adduce a present-day relevance for Red Decade art.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2015

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

He was a zealous Catholic, and did adduce arguments and proofs in behalf of his religion with rare ability.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

Ms. Rosenwein adduces all the figures in the Old Testament who were said to have lived to fantastic ages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

But back to your observation: when a student adduces a YouTube video, in terms of professorial ethics, how do you respond?

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2022

In this column Ross fails to connect the dots he adduces.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2017

Harrison’s work adduces a novel canon of modern art.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

It was here that the girl whose story Guiccioli adduces as evidence of Byron's virtuous self-denial came to him for counsel.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

Later appraisals adduced that the enigmatic piece was an apron, a garment or a military banner, before analysts in 20th century Vienna agreed: It was a headdress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

The authors might have adduced more egregious examples than that second one, and from the other party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

“I was horrified to see the images, and we look forward to learning the facts that are adduced from the investigation, and we will take actions that those facts compel,” Mayorkas said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021

Other examples could be adduced, but I don’t have an extra 20,000 words to spare.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2019

In his version of Book I of On the Revolutions the arguments that could be adduced against the movement of the Earth are given a more prominent position.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

At one point, Avenatti reportedly tried to cast doubt over his former client's trustworthiness by adducing Daniel's belief in the paranormal.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

As Reynolds points out, in the story Dupin dismisses mathematics as a means of adducing abstract truths about morals or human motivation.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2020

Cohn sorted the Republicans into three buckets, adducing historical antecedents for each.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2015

But scores of auditors were sidling through the exits before the Nominee finished adducing details to prove his point.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adduc′tion, the act of adducing or bringing forward: the movement by which a part of the body is drawn forward by muscles.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various