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propound
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Definition:to offer an idea for people to consider; to propose
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“That troubles me, Augustine. I can’t help feeling as if these servants were not strictly honest. Are you sure they can be relied on?”
Augustine laughed immoderately at the grave and anxious face with which Miss Ophelia propounded the question.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
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"I fancy that we shall have them all round here by the day after to-morrow at the latest. Probably earlier. News of this sort always spreads quickly. The point is, then, what are we to do?" He propounded no scheme, but stood in an easy attitude of attention, waiting for me to continue. I continued.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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I was about to propound a question, touching the manner in which that operation of changing my heart was to be performed,
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Besides these Russians and foreigners who propounded new and unexpected ideas every day—
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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