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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
propose .
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Examples
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On one hand it has a pretty strong rhythmic energy; on the other side it has, as the title proposes — what I experienced when performing “Eccentric” live is that it’s too eccentric.
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What Yglesias proposes is to ignore all terrorist threats.
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Darwin proposes that the nested hierarchy of Linnaean taxonomy is due to the nested hierarchy of descent.
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One idea he proposes is to match Beijing's currency manipulations.
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In this case, Darwin proposes a negative argument, a reasonable enough objection at the time, then proceeds to examine the volume of the evidence, which is the proper response to a negative argument.
A New Book 2010
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What Yglesias proposes is to ignore all terrorist threats.
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What Romney proposes is just more of the same that got us to were we are.
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What Yglesias proposes is to ignore all terrorist threats.
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The tax policy Matt proposes is not a bad one, though you could probably get most of the positive effects without actually going that far.
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I was simply saying that I think the one EV proposes is too narrow.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Thomas and Judge Reinhardt 2010
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