How to Use propound in a Sentence

propound

verb

• Her new book expands upon the theory propounded in her first book.
• Gewen has every right to propound that view in his own books and essays.
  — Jim Sleeper, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2020
• In short, the world Devo propounded is all around us, and Mothersbaugh, 55, is providing the soundtrack.
  — Robert Levine, WIRED, 1 May 2006
• One of the baser conspiratorial elements of the theory is that the globe-earth lie is propounded so that people will believe their lives are meaningless.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2022
• But while millions have read unsupported theories propounded in dark corners of the internet, some have been prompted to act violently.
  — Ali Watkins, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
• In it, Socrates propounds his theory of love, introducing the concept of Platonic love, which formed the basis of his theory of ideal forms.
  — Jamie James, WSJ, 17 May 2019
• Such an expression is interpreted to be a desire to utilize the grievance process as opposed to the solution propounded by the administration.
  — Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 28 Feb. 2018
• According to Bob especially tough to take was his hook-line-and-sinker acceptance of the familiar fundamentalist litany, and his smugness in propounding it.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2017
• Yet that continued support for armed struggle explains why Hamas has been empowered to reject generous peace initiatives propounded by the Israelis.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2024
• Barr embraced modernism as a series of intellectual principles, propounded like a science in pedagogical charts.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• The complexity is compounded by separate regulators for many parts of the health-care economy, some of which propound different security guidelines from one another, or none at all.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• Blowback to the post-Trump majority’s provocations, on and off the court, has spooked even the right-wing justices themselves, enough to propound public defenses of their bona fides as stewards of an independent judiciary.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• This equation of divine and political power runs counter to the American principle of the separation of church and state, and propounds an elitist, even totalitarian view of politics.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• This image of a world ravaged by crusades is also Sorokin’s way of satirizing the philosophy of neo-Eurasianism as propounded by the far-right thinker Aleksandr Dugin.
  — Jennifer Wilson, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• The Harvard scholar has in recent years been famous for his clash of civilizations thesis, propounded in 1993, which the recent struggle between the West and militant Islam vindicated.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• Transcripts show that Daniel and Meta AI propounding on theories about extraterrestrial life, with Meta AI supporting and building on Daniel’s alien theories.
  — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 15 Jan. 2026
• Virginia may have established a representative body, the House of Burgesses, in 1619, but the mid-century Cavalier elite continued to accept the divine right of kings as the Stuart monarchs had propounded it.
  — James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
• Before Albert Einstein propounded his theory of relativity in the early 20th century, it was assumed that matter could ultimately be broken down into indivisible indestructible parts.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 18 Dec. 2019
• The once-obscure Goldwater rule, propounded by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 to prevent reckless speculation by psychiatrists about public figures, has become a flashpoint.
  — Leonard L. Glass, STAT, 28 June 2018