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adduce

How to use adduce in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for adduce.

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Please cite anything you can adduce on this point.

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Definitions1
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advance evidence for

Meaning at a glance

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verb

advance evidence for

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for adduce.

verb

advance evidence for

Example sentences

1

Please cite anything you can adduce on this point.

2

And what evidence did the professor adduce in support of this outrageous claim?

3

"... the competent people are still competent ..."Sadly, one could adduce many reasons this no longer remains true.

4

I see no problem with requiring them to adduce evidence in support of their explanation.

5

That is because there is no causal evidence about the relationship between hunger and productivity adduced here.

6

There are many, many people out there who do work hard and yet do not enjoy success; the fact that you can adduce examples of the form "that person is unsuccessful and is not working hard enough" is not evidence for your claim either.

7

It’s all too easy, he says, for fellow experts to adduce evidence for their favoured route – his team argues for a more northerly path – but until the same methods and rigour are brought to bear on all the alternatives, none can be ruled out.

8

Any evidence you adduce to support the idea that Mandarin is a language will apply just as well to Cantonese, and vice versa.> But then how would you explain the relationship between Chinese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, etc in terms of language vs.

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You might get away with arguing that it's the case now to an extent, and you could've argued that with the famously dysfunctional hockey-puck-mouse that shipped with the first iMacs, but to adduce the one-button mouse as evidence for said hypothesis betrays your ignorance of UI research and Apple's good old Human Interface Guidelines.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use adduce in a sentence?

Please cite anything you can adduce on this point.

What does adduce mean?

advance evidence for

What part of speech is adduce?

adduce is commonly used as verb.