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"And no matter what you may think, Mr. Kennedy. And I revere your name. You're not here to propound your case for censorship," Connolly said.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2023

“We can’t wait to propound searing questions about the finances of these individuals and these groups.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

Leaders like FDR, JFK, Wałęsa, and Nehru demonstrated that democrats can propound powerful liberal-national narratives.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2020

In its pursuit of ideological even-handedness and narrative expedience, “Come Sunday” doesn’t always propound or dramatize these questions perfectly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2018

I was not free from apprehension that he would come back to propound through the gate, “And sixteen?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

After all, each house adapts rules to its own purposes; “Chicago” propounds rules with a soft authority, a gentle firmness.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2017

Whereas previous jihadist narratives were all about “resistance” to imagined enemies, IS propounds what Mr Winter calls “the propaganda of the winner”.

From Economist ● Aug. 13, 2015

Whereas once I lauded this program, now I am absolutely disgusted by the moral nihilism it propounds.

From Time ● Apr. 1, 2013

The Conclusion to his book of Renaissance essays, published in 1873, was seized on for the ardour with which Pater propounds a philosophy of beauty.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2011

The occult scientist has convinced himself that a consideration of the visible world propounds enigmas to man which can never be solved out of the facts of that world itself.

From An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner

Many economists who propounded the inevitability of business cycles, including Kuznets, Hayek, Paul Samuelson and James Tobin, have won Nobel Prizes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Although the court ruled unanimously for the Sacketts, the three liberal judges were joined by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh in articulating different reasons than the one propounded by the majority.

From Salon ● May 27, 2023

And it ends with one of them stepping on a butterfly and changing the course of history — 20 years before the chaos theoretician Edward Norton Lorenz propounded the “butterfly effect.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

There is no relation between what’s being propounded in council chambers and what’s going down in the streets.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2023

It was the first really universal law of nature ever propounded by a human mind, which is why Newton is regarded with such universal esteem.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Nor is it permissible to start a lawsuit propounding the client’s thesis, simply hoping that some support for the claim may turn up.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2020

Fighting open white supremacism, defending human rights and the rule of law, propounding international cooperation, rejecting narrow nationalism, so many of these debates seem to belong to another age.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2020

Revisionist takes on characters have a pleasing audacity, but Morrison isn't so much propounding a thesis as approaching a classic with a different level of political awareness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2015

The data, Jefferson showed, simply didn’t support this the dangerous theory Buffon was propounding.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2012

Since it had been imprudently encouraged by the king, that plaguy Third Estate had been giving itself airs, flaunting its arrogant pretensions and propounding its ridiculous demands from every country cabaret.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield