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espoused

adjective as in married

adjective as in matrimonial

adjective as in spliced

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adjective as in wedded

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For a lot of fringe figures like anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, and QAnon conspiracy theorists, espousing an extreme belief is not necessarily about the truth.

From Fortune

While I favor many of the programs espoused by the progressive left they must recognize how the country votes and how the country views their proposals as currently presented.

We are a family … Trainers who espouse the pack metaphor extract the “hierarchy” component and ignore the social context from which it emerges.

Other doctors and epidemiologists who have signed on to the declaration espouse views that are largely rejected by the scientific community, including the notion that herd immunity would only require 10% to 20% of the population to be infected.

From Fortune

Whether or not the answer that you gave me to espouse was correct is a different question.

From Ozy

It is the kind of compassion espoused by every world religion and every revered religious leader.

But such an approach works against the traditional pride in self-sufficiency espoused by many in the American middle class.

And the values of Chabad rest uneasily alongside the values publicly espoused in the Booker-Boteach-Hecht show.

This was the same all-too-easy-to-articulate ideological trinity regularly espoused by the military junta.

Pearce, Ready said, espoused “neo-Nazi philosophy completely.”

He warmly espoused the interests of his country, and many important measures were effected by his eloquence.

A pretty dispute followed, in which Edna warmly espoused her father's cause and the Doctor remained neutral.

She then espoused the second clerk, Berthier, in 1837, after having been on the point of accepting Lousteau.

The influence of Constantine seems to have been fraught with more of evil than of good to the new religion that he espoused.

Having espoused the party of the Persians, Pixodarus sent for a satrap to share the kingdom with him.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to espoused, such as: joined, marital, mated, united, and joined in holy matrimony.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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