proponent
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"We vowed the terrorists would not escape punishment, and no proponent of dark ideologies that divide Jordanians will be tolerated," he wrote on X.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Edgerton’s mayor, Donald Roberts, has been a proponent of the industrial complex on the outskirts of town where the data center would be built.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Google-backed Promise is another Culver City-adjacent AI studio that’s a proponent of hybrid productions, where human actors work with AI specialists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
EA's three big causes today are global poverty, factory-farmed animals and "the most controversial one -- global catastrophic risk," said Richard Chappell, a professor at University of Miami and an EA proponent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
In the 1970s, the famed Tyrolean alpinist Reinhold Messner emerged as the leading proponent of gasless climbing, declaring that he would ascend Everest “by fair means” or not at all.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Meanwhile, Tennessee's proponents of capital punishment have suggested that a different method be used.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
To its proponents, EA is a rational, evidence-based way to do good.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
A long-term infrastructure plan administered with two-year budgeting “sets clear priorities, identifies the projects that need to get done, and plans how to fund them over time,” proponents said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
This, though, isn’t a good guide to AI, where some of the most aggressive innovators are also loud proponents of oversight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Actually, proponents of the strong programme treat the empiricist language-game as if it were one of a number of equally false language-games, for the only valid game, in their eyes, is the Wittgensteinian meta-game.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Power Prefix: pro
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