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conduce
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con·duce  (kn-ds, -dys)
intr.v. con·duced, con·duc·ing, con·duc·es
To contribute or lead to a specific result: "The quiet conduces to thinking about the darkening future" George F. Will.

[Latin condcere : com-, com- + dcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]

con·ducer n.
con·ducing·ly adv.
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Verb1.conduce - be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing"
encourage, promote, further, boost, advance - contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom"

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Calpis has been conducing research on lactic acid bacteria since 1997.
The italicized items that follow are taken from the list of things conducing to the sense of the Sublime, which appears on pages 58-87 of the Boulton edition of Burke's treatise.
Having emerg'd from the Poverty and obscurity, in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro[ugh] Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.
 
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