adduce

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to give as an example in support of a 12-month school year, the committee adduced data from other school districts

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Recent Examples of adduce The term could justify both exclusion and engagement: the scourge of heathenism was later adduced as a reason to oppose Chinese immigration to California, and to support the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 Examples are not difficult to adduce. Joseph Epstein, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020 Last month in Nature Reviews Genetics there was a paper, Measuring selection in contemporary human populations, which reviewed data from various surveys in an attempt to adduce the current trajectory of human evolution. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2010 Distinct and less numerous groups, such as Sardinians, may show less ancestral cosmopolitanism in part because the reference populations which could be used to adduce such a state no longer exist. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2012 See all Example Sentences for adduce 

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“Adduce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adduce. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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