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- noun Plural form of
propounder .
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Examples
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The fact that Israel in fact advised at the time that it was Iran they were worried about rather than Iraq does not trouble the propounders of this malevolent libel.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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But at the same time certain elements who have become the leaders and propounders of some other regional languages are asking for “their due” by attacking the Kashmiri language.
Adbee Markaz warns against anti-kashmiri language tirade 2009
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The fact that Israel in fact advised at the time that it was Iran they were worried about rather than Iraq does not trouble the propounders of this malevolent libel.
Miles of prejudice 2009
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What is meant by this supernatural faculty I will leave to its propounders to explain.
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But as in all great causes and in promulgating new and illustrious theories, their first propounders and exponents are generally the victims of their enthusiasm, of course the first preachers of smoking have been martyrs, too; and George
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They are just as fervent about stamping out organized religion - by never giving it a platform from which to mount an offensive, at least not on my tax dollar, thank you kindly - as the ID propounders are to leverage this potential crack in the system to toss out religious ideas and discussions by means of raising a scientific or pseudo-scientific, some would say issue within the context of scientific education.
The President and Intelligent Design Rogers 2005
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As the resolute propounders of intermittent jocularity strode onward toward the beckoning sunset, accompanied by a hulking and perplexed mass of hair that lumbered after them on legs like hispid tree trunks, and one brooding black cat of striking size and grace, the Gogloyyik lifted its outlandish cranium and watched them go, not overlooking a chance to fenegrate the sookstrum that unexpectedly darted between its legs.
A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Universities-filled with potential acolytes-are now paying rich fees to propounders of racial hatred in the name of diversity and freedom of speech.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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If the education of the colored man has not worked out the fulfillment which its propounders prophesied, it simply proves them to be poor prophets.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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Now, this theory is undoubtedly unobjectionable on the score of orthodoxy, if we view it in the spiritual sense, in which its first propounders must necessarily have intended it to be presented to the mind, and not in the gross, sensual meaning in which it was subsequently received.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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