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To tend toward or lead to.

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Usage examples (35)
  • It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free country a dianoetic academy, or...
  • Verb (used without object), : qualities that conduce to success
  • All the surroundings and employments of the pregnant woman should be such as conduce to cheerfulness and equanimity.
  • Therefore let me tell you, it will conduce as much to the
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