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espousal

[ih-spou-zuhl, -suhl] / ɪˈspaʊ zəl, -səl /


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Scorsese’s public espousal of this technology marks the latest shift in attitude about AI from powerful Hollywood creatives.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

As Travis Adkins and Judd Devermont recently pointed out in Foreign Policy, Cold Warriors both Black and White were painfully aware of the contradictions of their ringing espousal of freedom.

From Washington Post Sep. 3, 2020

A recent study found the espousal of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and belief in the paranormal turn out to be highly correlated with one another.

From The Guardian Sep. 10, 2018

In our book “Queer Wars,” Jon Symons and I traced the current backlash back to the espousal of “Asian values” by Singapore’s Lee Kwan Yew and Malaysia’s Mohammed Mahathir in the early 1990s.

From Salon Sep. 29, 2016

His prayer became at the same time a solemn espousal and internal oath that he would never wrong that most precious being in the world, and that those eyes would never weep for his sake.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz




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