propound
verb (used with object)
to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose.
propounded
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past participleof propound.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 propound.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
propoundverb (used with object)to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose.
Example Sentences
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Many economists who propounded the inevitability of business cycles, including Kuznets, Hayek, Paul Samuelson and James Tobin, have won Nobel Prizes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
And it ends with one of them stepping on a butterfly and changing the course of history — 20 years before the chaos theoretician Edward Norton Lorenz propounded the “butterfly effect.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Yet "futurist" also refers to a specific movement from 20th century history, one that in crucial ways is both similar to and different from the supposed "futurism" propounded by the likes of Musk and Thiel.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022
That’s mostly due to the controversial “attachment parenting” method propounded by pediatrician William Sears and his wife, Martha, in their best-selling “The Baby Book.”
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020
As he rapidly read its contents Francis became furious, for he noticed that part of the argument depended upon a theoretical idea he had propounded some nine months earlier.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
