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propound

[pruh-pound] / prəˈpaʊnd /


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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

But the plays don’t hector or propound moral lessons.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2022

“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

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

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

How did a pluralistic nation that propounds democratic values and practices come to this?

From Washington Post Apr. 21, 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

But a little consideration will show that this is quite a different question from the one the philosopher propounds.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

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

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

As with Giles Martin's previous efforts, the remixed "Revolver" clearly benefited from his interest in breathing new life into the original, highly compressed mixes propounded by his father in the 1960s.

From Salon Sep. 15, 2022

That’s mostly due to the controversial “attachment parenting” method propounded by pediatrician William Sears and his wife, Martha, in their best-selling “The Baby Book.”

From Washington Post May 7, 2020

Ai says that similar theories have been propounded by Terran scholars to explain the still incomplete recession of their last Age of Ice.

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

Increasingly, leading forestry experts are propounding a view dissonant to a public accustomed to the idea of preserving the country’s wild lands: Sometimes you have to cut trees to save trees.

From New York Times Jul. 27, 2022

“There are so many moving parts here, and we need to prioritize what we respond to and what we propound. We have to be proactively propounding an alternative vision that recalls American core values.”

From Washington Post Jan. 29, 2017

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

H. R. then delegated the task of propounding the aureate question to a dozen lieutenants.

From H. R. by Edwin Lefevre




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