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- verb Present participle of
propound .
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Examples
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Now she knew that, in propounding this question, Ibrahim was laying a trap for her; for if she said,
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Kalkin, that’s idiotic, and if you continue in propounding it you will fail just the way that the Soviets failed.
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But if or when -- she used that phrase, in set terms propounding her resolution to herself -- if or when the call of her children, of her home, came and was paramount, she could give up everything and respond to it.
This Freedom 1925
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Rush who while propounding the sanctity of heterosexual marriage, divorces his dying wife so he can pick up a young pretty one.
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Rush who while propounding the sanctity of heterosexual marriage, divorces his dying wife so he can pick up a young pretty one.
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That's the question I've been propounding to myself for many a day — not concerning you merely, but concerning everybody.
Chapter 45 2010
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Plus, I have to listen to professors wishing away the political problem while propounding their Keynesian nostrums.
What Merkel Is Thinking Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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IQ researchers have been propounding the signaling theory of education for decades.
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And propounding halfway measures, as Haass does, is no better.
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Sheldon smiled and beat a further retreat within himself, listening the while to Joan and Tudor propounding the theory of the strong arm by which the white man ordered life among the lesser breeds.
Chapter 15 2010
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