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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

Fourth: Trial brings out our best qualities, is "stuff to try the soul's strength on," and "educe the man," as Browning puts it.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde

Some shaven magician from State Street would run up by rail, and, from proposals, maps, schedules of stock, etc., educe a spacious factory as easily as Aladdin's palace arose from nothing.

From Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis

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

Moreover, this tender and pitiful Saviour is the Almighty One who rules both this and the invisible world, and who "from every evil still educes good."

From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher

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

In the absence of certain knowledge, conjectural opinions, such as the writer has here educed, are not unprofitable; rather the reverse.

From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

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

The hammer fell on an empty chamber, rose and fell half a dozen times without educing any response other than the click of metal against metal: demonstrating beyond question that the revolver was unloaded.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown

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

How else could He have wrought the miracle of educing good from evil?

From Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by M. (Meletios) Golden

Th’ eternal art, educing good from ill, Grafts on this passion our best principle; ’Tis thus the mercury of man is fix’d: Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix’d.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson




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