espoused

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Here, punk bands truly espoused the music’s DIY ethos, and were more culturally diverse.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Stanley espoused an evangelical capitalism that focused on its employees’ personal growth; it recommended salespeople read Dale Carnegie and Norman Vincent Peale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

He became frustrated by the policy of peaceful resistance to Belgrade's repression of ethnic Albanians espoused by the late Kosovo president Ibrahim Rugova.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

Mr Freeman had long espoused "sovereign citizen" views and had a well-documented hatred of authority.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

And Charles’s book was, after all, an argument against the concept of God as creator that Paley had espoused.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman