propound
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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
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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
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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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