How to Use adduce in a Sentence

adduce

verb
  • And the report adduces no evidence that the Trump supporters knew the origin of the account.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The court denied removal of the guardian and lawyer saying no evidence was adduced.
    Cincinnati.com, 3 May 2017
  • Yet the firm has been adduced as proof that Europe’s steel industry has a future—even as this future once again looks in doubt.
    The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • No one was ever charged, no motive adduced, and Wong’s wife, Leena, who discovered the body and might have known more, is now dead of cancer.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
  • This lack of recent strong U.S. hurricane strikes has been much remarked upon - and a number of ideas have been adduced to explain it.
    Chris Mooney, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Even those parts of the essay were weakened, however, by his adducing French, bizarrely, as an example of the latter.
    Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Not a scintilla of evidence has been adduced that learning has been improved.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Many factors have been adduced to explain the apparently irresistible rise of Donald Trump.
    Charles Isherwood, Town & Country, 30 May 2017
  • Buckingham woos her with sundry twinkling guitar parts that adduce his intuition about what love songs require: crosstalk, tension, release.
    Alfred Soto, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The author also adduces xenophobic anti-sharia laws and resistance to Muslim buildings.
    The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • Various theories have been adduced for this gesture: genuine amity, a vestige of courtliness, too much lunch, or the possibility that the President is afraid of stairs.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2017
  • Divine providence is often adduced when a few faithful people survive a disaster, but all the religious folks who died and atheists who lived are expediently ignored.
    Michael Shermer, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
  • In addition to the burden of providing evidence, researching appropriate law violations, we were expected to know how to properly adduce and find replacements for the guardian and lawyer.
    Cincinnati.com, 3 May 2017
  • But they are nicely spanned by classical genetic techniques such as linkage mapping which can adduce regions of the genome of possible interesting in controlling variations in the phenotype.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2011
  • For instance, the November 2016 demonetisation of two key banknotes was an economic disaster, according to evidence adduced by many scholars.
    R Nagaraj, Quartz India, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Not a shred of evidence has been adduced suggesting otherwise, which federal investigators and NCAA officials have acknowledged.
    Chris Chavez, SI.com, 25 Feb. 2018

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