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Recent Examples of propound In his book, In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey, Akhavan describes the establishment of the ICC as the consummation of the idea of justice propounded at Nuremberg. Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024 Trump has wagered that nonwhite voters, even those in Democratic districts, will come to see how closely their values align with those propounded by the G.O.P.: traditional family roles, religion, fiscal discipline, meritocracy. E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024 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 Trump and many of his political allies propound a highly nationalistic and xenophobic vision of the United States’ role in the world. Jordan Tama, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for propound
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Verb
  • In April 2024, Bill Nelson, the agency's chief at the time, announced NASA would overhaul the MSR strategy after incorporating new ideas proposed by agency research centers, academia and private industry.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • However, the idea is not new, as former Crystal Palace and Bristol City chief executive Phil Alexander, who is now interim CEO of the National League, has proposed it several times in the past — initially in 2003 — without success.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • But tax policy analysts and lawyers said nothing in the guidance so far suggests adult performers would be excluded.
    Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Indications suggest that the adoption of artificial intelligence is continuing at a rapid pace.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The first photo in the carousel showed Brooks posing with her arms wrapped around her husband-to-be, flashing her ring as the couple posed for the camera in the black-and-white shot.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That's significant because the Environmental Protection Agency cited it in its attempts to roll back its prior finding that greenhouse gases posed a danger to the US public.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Propound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/propound. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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