What is the verb for proposal?

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propose
  1. (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
  2. (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
  3. (transitive) To intend.
  4. (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
  5. (obsolete) To set forth.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “I will try to analyze the cause of the issue, and subsequently propose a plan for moving forward.”
      “Each commission will propose one candidate to fill each vacancy.”
      “There were one or two other blanks in the bill, which he would propose to fill up, and would likewise make some verbal amendments.”
propound
  1. (transitive) To put forward; to offer for discussion or debate.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These works actively propound the belief that the unexamined death is not worth dying.”
      “That's not a very romantic vision to propound right after Valentine's Day, but, as they say on the Continent, c'est la vie.”
      “We can propound the idea that entertainment is not optional, but a constituent element of human development.”
propone
  1. (transitive, Scotland) to propose or put forward for discussion or consideration
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And the bits of business that I have to propone to you are rather in the nature of being confidential.”
      “People of narrow reach are propone to credulity, mostly because they were never enlightened about the benefits for their lives by the act of thinking and, above all, by the fact of knowing.”
      “It was also reported that propone tanks were exploding at the scene, triggering the call for a second and third alarm.”
propositionalize
  1. To convert by means of propositionalization
proposition
  1. (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We're trying to get up enough nerve to proposition him about taking back the correspondent work.”
      “Unable to speak coherently, he had tried to proposition her by making woeful faces and exaggerated gestures, reminding her of Quasimodo entreating Esmerelda.”
propositionize
  1. (linguistics) To formulate a proposition.
propositionizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of propositionize
propositions
propositionalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of propositionalize
propositionized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of propositionize
propounds
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of propound
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The liberal component of the theory propounds a moral point of view that is universal rather than limited, selective, or parochial.”
      “The yoga of synthesis propounds that man should demonstrate spiritual values in every walk of life: social, economic, domestic and spiritual.”
      “He propounds American-sounding solutions to France's economic problems, such as tax cuts and ending the 35-hour week.”
propones
proposes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of propose
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Charlotte enters Maggie's household and comes to the attention of the wifeless Adam Verver, who proposes to her.”
      “This Act proposes that every student in grades 3 through 8 will be proficient in reading and math.”
      “Teller also proposes that the majority of classified UFO documents should be declassified.”
propositioned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of proposition
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Some men whom he had propositioned sexually refused to be interviewed, either on or off the record.”
      “While keeping an eye on Marilyn Monroe, Jacobs is propositioned by the the blonde bombshell.”
      “In the one reported staff incident, a male officer subtly propositioned the woman.”
propounded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of propound
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the middle of nineteenth century Karl Marx propounded the theory of historical and dialectical materialism.”
      “Then the remark is taken up, carried a few miles, a theory is propounded and someone loses a reputation.”
      “The Enlightenment also propounded a belief in the transhistorical universality of human nature.”
propositionizing
  1. present participle of propositionize
proposed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of propose
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is proposed that the effects of the selected mutations were propagated into the active site through groups of interacting residues.”
      “Politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories.”
      “It is proposed that the creative economy works through a process of cultural diffusion, for which a conceptual understanding of cultural diffusion is outlined.”
proponed
propositioning
  1. present participle of proposition
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Jacob looked into my eyes as if he were propositioning me to go back to his place.”
      “The features tell us if that person is a threat, if they are sexually propositioning us, cowering before us or merely sleeping.”
      “The five are charged with propositioning men and then pretending to be police officers, handcuffing the men, and then robbing them.”
propounding
  1. present participle of propound
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And for three or four years they have sat and listened to lecturers propounding these half-baked ideas.”
      “Has the postmodernists' faith in the viability of assimilating and propounding notions in fundamental tension with each other been lost?”
      “The final poetic statement propounding the belief that life is all one time, not to be squandered or compartmentalized.”
proponing
proposing
  1. present participle of propose
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The ACTU's position is that it is not proposing industrial action but it is not ruling anything out.”
      “These frank statements suggest that he is sincere and serious about exposing the problems and proposing solutions.”
      “The President is not merely proposing to impose his jerry-built system on soldiers captured on the battlefield, however.”
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