conduce
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Russia, and China joined forces – to declare the Ebola outbreak in Africa a threat to world peace and security, and conduce a universal proposition.
From Fox News ● Apr. 16, 2020
Does the conditioning environment of suburbia conduce a sense of well-being and life adjustment?
From Slate ● May 1, 2016
They argue that a “victimhood culture” has emerged “that is distinct from the honor cultures and dignity cultures of the past,” and that certain features of campus life conduce to the victim culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2015
“They’re trying to conduce this guy into writing, maybe signing a contract,” Mr. Watt said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2011
I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father’s happiness, my adversary’s designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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Although he realizes the oddity of saying that college seminars are likely to make students more virtuous, he does really believe “one conduces to the other.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2019
About 95 percent of the city center was destroyed during World War II, and unfortunately it was quickly rebuilt, in that typical, postwar low-key style that conduces to a dreary anonymity.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2012
How not feeling good nonetheless conduces to our not feeling bad, indeed conduces to our feeling exhilarated, is one of the great mysteries of art.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2010
I observe it from the Rushes but there is no Activity & nothing conduces to Change.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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Whether this change conduces to fair, manly, unbought wrestling, is a matter of grave doubt.
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Sidney Gilpin
All four co-authors interviewed said they were cutting back on their bottled water use after they conduced the study.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
A CNN poll conduced with 552 U.S. adults found that 72% regarded the speech positively.
From Reuters ● Feb. 9, 2023
And they are, in fact, probably to his right — that is, Robert Bork at least seemed to believe in preserving those aspects of free speech that conduced to meaningful democratic self-governance.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2022
The company was not immediately available for comment regarding how it conduced its investigation into Crowder’s channel, or which employees were involved.
From The Verge ● Jun. 4, 2019
The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favour, conduced to my distraction.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Before long, Dudamel was conducing new music left and right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But if he were, his lawyers would appeal the sentence immediately, arguing that jail time would prevent him from conducing his official duties and that he should remain free pending the appeal, Ms Rendelman said.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024
Their cavitation approach may be particularly conducing to DNA vaccines that are currently difficult to deliver.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
The state Department of Environmental Quality and a third-party contractor were conducing the tests.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
From this it may be inferred that the absence of reporters has at least the negative advantage of conducing to brevity of utterance.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman