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educe

[ih-doos, ih-dyoos] / ɪˈdus, ɪˈdjus /


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Every song in her discographical universe matters, and any surprise song she chooses will invariably educe outpourings of jubilation.

From Salon Oct. 13, 2023

I think that there should’ve been more discussion of what we educe from his philosophy about these issues of privacy and personal liberty that appear discussed at length in his book.

From Slate Mar. 28, 2017

He spreads them out, classifies them; then pores, probes, weighs, analyzes, to educe both a composite picture of the author and a meticulous evaluation of the cumulus itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

He must keep his own education above that of his fellows and he must become able to educe.

From Seed Thoughts for Singers by Frank Herbert Tubbs

From the misery of our civil strife we may educe a future happiness, as well as a present blessedness.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various

Because terrorism educes such strong emotions, it has led to at least five myths.

From Scientific American Aug. 19, 2013

Mr. Crowther, a skilled publicist, lengthily educes the candidate's fitness for office from his record in other offices.

From Time Magazine Archive

His pontificate, however, was not without its use; since that Providence, which still educes good from evil, made the scandal, which it occasioned to the Christian world, a principal spring of the glorious Reformation.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 by William Hickling Prescott

Poor wretch, one sees what kind of meaning HE educes from Man's History, this long while past, and has got all the world to believe of it along with him.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01 by Thomas Carlyle

It is no answer to this question to suggest that war educes many splendid qualities.

From Armageddon—And After by W. L. (William Leonard) Courtney

In 2013, the Serbian player Viktor Troicki was given an 18-month ban, which was later educed to 12 months, for declining a blood test at a tournament.

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2018

He educed a knowing chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib.

From Time Magazine Archive

I recalled what I could of how I had been educed, at age twelve.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

If any one should here ask: Granted that from phenomena expressed in terms of energy no ultimate law can be educed, yet may not some other view of phenomena lead to other results?

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

Real, whether educed from texts containing the institution of the   Primacy, or from the inherent properties of the Church.—1.

From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Thomas W. Allies

As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack of educing raw emotions from himself and his audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

I cannot go   Where Universal Love not smiles around,   Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns;   From seeming evil still educing good,   And better thence again, and better still,   In infinite progression.

From English Poets of the Eighteenth Century by Ernest Bernbaum

He, too, believed in man's natural goodness, and held that true education is not so much the infusion of what is foreign to, as the educing of what is native in the child.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst

Watch ye, and behold the magnificent courage which in every land of strife is purging families from the dross of indolence and indifference, and educing the gold of chivalry and sacrifice.

From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett

It will always be true, therefore, that the lazy and the pompous will have no aim beyond educing monosyllabic answers.

From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Amos R. Wells




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