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
He characterized as “fantasy” another idea, propounded by British author Robin Mackness in the best-selling 1988 book “Oradour: Massacre and Aftermath,” that the Nazis attacked Oradour in search of gold stolen by the resistance.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
As with Giles Martin's previous efforts, the remixed "Revolver" clearly benefited from his interest in breathing new life into the original, highly compressed mixes propounded by his father in the 1960s.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2022
This book very elegantly propounded the belief that genes were the key components of living cells and that, to understand what life is, we must know how genes act.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
