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 left her no plausible answer, for she could adduce no grievance against him.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

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

Writing in the show’s catalogue, the art historian Emily Braun adduces, in Fontana, a temperamental identification with “the Fascist viewpoint of a Latin and Catholic culture in epochal conflict with a materialist, Protestant one.”

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2019

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2017

He adduces very strong evidence from manuscripts of high authority and of great antiquity to prove what he says.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

Ultimately, the huge numbers adduced to support this and other assertions throughout the book seem intended to shock rather than to support serious causal argumentation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

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

He wanted a sort of mathematical calculation that could help us determine whether a sentence was true or false based on the evidence adduced for it.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024

“The actions we’re taking are swift and strong, and we will take further action as the facts adduced in the investigation compel,” he said on Twitter.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021

In Rome the advocatus diaboli, or devil’s advocate, had been established as early as 1587 to test the evidence adduced in support of the miracles claimed for those proposed for canonization.

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