conduce
verb (used without object)
to lead or contribute to a result (usually followed by to ortoward ).
have conduced
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present perfectof conduce.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Everything should have conduced to rest, but she lay there with her eyes wide-open.
From The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
The amazing success of his author seems, however, to have spurred the artist to sedulous study, and to have conduced in a remarkable degree towards the development of his faculties.
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Fred. G. Kitton
A second condition is scarcely less important, viz., whether the laws and economic situation of the country have conduced to a dispersion or to a concentration of property.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
Hygiene has done its part; and other circumstances have conduced to the same result.
From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by John Clark Ridpath
The eye of imagination lingered on all that must have conduced to its preparation—all the pegs, and string, and perspiration, and misplaced cleverness.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain
