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Nor is it permissible to start a lawsuit propounding the client’s thesis, simply hoping that some support for the claim may turn up.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2020

Fighting open white supremacism, defending human rights and the rule of law, propounding international cooperation, rejecting narrow nationalism, so many of these debates seem to belong to another age.

From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2020

According to Magnet, Thomas is an intellectual heavyweight propounding the farsighted vision that “there is no government solution.”

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2019

Revisionist takes on characters have a pleasing audacity, but Morrison isn't so much propounding a thesis as approaching a classic with a different level of political awareness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2015

H. R. then delegated the task of propounding the aureate question to a dozen lieutenants.

From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin