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A good explanation evinces a willingness to report facts, and we aim to do just that here. To evince something is to show it clearly; the thing evinced is typically an intangible, such as an attitude or intent. Before the current use of evince was established in the late 18th century, the word could mean "to conquer or subdue" and "to convince or conclusively refute," both meanings evincing a link to the word's Latin ancestry: the verb evincere, means "to vanquish" or "to win a point." It comes from another Latin verb, vincere, meaning "to conquer." That word counts among its offspring convince, invincible, vanquish, and victory.
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Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
Beijing’s efforts to supplant the U.S. in the Middle East — as evinced by its efforts to broker a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia in 2023 — are materially advanced by Hamas’s terrorism.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
The strategic risk is that such strikes don’t go to the source of the problem and that Khamenei and the hard-liner factions will perceive American action as evincing a strategic weakness veiled behind 2,000-pound bombs.
—Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Jan. 2024
The founders evince none of the open hostility to the music business that characterized, say, Napster before the lawsuits that destroyed it.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2024
In an effort to evince a more neutral position that had greater sympathy for the Palestinians, amid domestic pro-Palestinian political uproar, U.S. officials for weeks sought to put forward a resolution that prioritized a cease-fire.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
At worst, these failures evince a deliberate effort to protect a loyalist insider and cover up her wrongdoing.
—Michael McCaul, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
Rivera raises a flag for an entire community in the scene: a Latina actress playing a character both soft and tough, moving in unison with a Black dancer and a White dancer and all evincing the same artistry, and hope.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
But critics say features like Full Self-Driving already are giving drivers a false sense of confidence about taking their eyes off the road — or getting behind the wheel after drinking — evincing the dangers of letting consumers test an evolving, experimental technology on the open road.
—Talia Trackim, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
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“Evince.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evince. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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