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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of adduce.

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Examples

  • If the evidence adduced is correct, the bone boxes — and microscopic remains of DNA still contained inside — would constitute the first archaeological evidence of the existence of the Christian saviour and his family.

    Sunday Reading 2007

  • It is not a comprehensive moral theory, even though arguments in its favor may be adduced from the perspective of various different comprehensive moral doctrines.

    Libertarianism: Political, not Metaphysical 2004

  • An argument sometimes adduced is that the cause of the changed relationship between East and West is not a Middle Eastern decline but a Western upsurge — the discoveries and the scientific, technological, industrial, and political revolutions that transformed the West and vastly increased its wealth and power.

    What Went Wrong? 2002

  • An argument sometimes adduced is that the cause of the changed relationship between East and West is not a Middle Eastern decline but a Western upsurge — the discoveries and the scientific, technological, industrial, and political revolutions that transformed the West and vastly increased its wealth and power.

    What Went Wrong? 2002

  • In _lanthorn_, another word adduced by Mr. White, the _h_ is a vulgarism of spelling introduced to give meaning to a foreign word, the termination being supposed to be derived from the material (horn) of which lanterns were formerly made, -- like _Bully Ruffian_ for _Bellerophon_ in our time, and

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • Very few, if any, suffer but for actual crimes, adduced from the clearest proofs.

    The Castle of Wolfenbach Eliza 1793

  • Even so, however, they are generally adequate for the purpose for which they are adduced, that is, they usually contain the word for which they are quoted, and the context is more or less accurately rendered.

    The evolution of English lexicography James Augustus Henry Murray 1876

  • Now, as this merely alleges the improbability of a Greek original, it is enough to place against it the evidence already adduced, which is positive, in favor of the sole originality of our Greek Matthew.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Gathas there is an expression used which shows the doctrine to have been already held when they were composed; but the phrase adduced is so obscure that its true meaning must be pronounced in the highest degree uncertain.

    The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

  • Against these general considerations, the justice of which no one can dispute, one argument is adduced, which is regarded as furnishing a satisfactory demonstration from the fact.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

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