adduce
verb (used with object)
to bring forward in argument or as evidence; cite as pertinent or conclusive.
adduced
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past participleof adduce.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof adduce.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
adduceverb (used with object)to bring forward in argument or as evidence; cite as pertinent or conclusive.
Example Sentences
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Ultimately, the huge numbers adduced to support this and other assertions throughout the book seem intended to shock rather than to support serious causal argumentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Later appraisals adduced that the enigmatic piece was an apron, a garment or a military banner, before analysts in 20th century Vienna agreed: It was a headdress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
Other examples could be adduced, but I don’t have an extra 20,000 words to spare.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2019
They then adduced clear evidence from many complex biochemical systems that these scenarios had actually occurred.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2019
In Rome the advocatus diaboli, or devil’s advocate, had been established as early as 1587 to test the evidence adduced in support of the miracles claimed for those proposed for canonization.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
