educe
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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
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Now the truth is, that the physical philosopher has frequently to conceive law which never was in his previous thought—to educe the unknown, not to choose among the known.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
Much might be said on the teleology by which he tries to educe intelligence from the primordial strife.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
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
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The Mogul is indeed an educational establishment, but unfortunately it educes the wrong set of faculties.
From The Night Side of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
I cannot conclude my letter better, than by assuring my dear ——, that such is the trust and confidence we all repose in the Being, who out of evil still educes good.”
From Samboe; or, The African Boy by Mary Ann Hedge
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
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
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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
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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
It was the same hand, the same mind, the same feeling that had been educed in her to me and through me.
From The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown
As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack of educing raw emotions from himself and his audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
This view of latency collates a lot of facts—secondary sexual characters in each individual; tendency of latent character to appear temporarily in youth; effect of crossing in educing talent, character, etc.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
The task of educing him was given to a promising young sculptor who lived here.
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
Natural selection holds that no such change can take place without the influence of altered external circumstances educing or eliciting such change.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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