as in proponent
a person who actively supports or favors a cause
a fervent apostle of universal health care
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Recent Examples of apostle
With Bono keeping his Cliffs of Dover yelp in check, Zooropa scales down U2's anthemic-apostles side.
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Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The apostles are alarmed, but Jesus understands his destiny is coming.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 30 June 2025
In a doctrinal publication issued on the topic, NAR apostle Lou Engle articulated that position.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 21 June 2025
Which leads me to Lydia Millet’s riveting (and funny) dystopian tale of one summer in the lives of an apostle’s dozen of wayward children.
—Literary Hub
june 21, Literary Hub, 21 June 2023
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Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The apostles are alarmed, but Jesus understands his destiny is coming.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 30 June 2025
In a doctrinal publication issued on the topic, NAR apostle Lou Engle articulated that position.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 21 June 2025
Which leads me to Lydia Millet’s riveting (and funny) dystopian tale of one summer in the lives of an apostle’s dozen of wayward children.
—Literary Hub
june 21, Literary Hub, 21 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostle
Noun
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Eide and other proponents of expanding hospitalization believe the administration could do even more.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Closure of the bike path to undertake this project has drawn opposition from cycling proponents and West Sacramento Mayor Martha Guerrero.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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The new partnership between farmers and advocates will let agriculture prosper while protecting one of Indiana's largest watersheds.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
25 Sep. 2025
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Newsom has been under pressure in recent years to adopt AI guardrails by advocates worried about the technology’s impact on unemployment by automating jobs and upending creative and media industries via its ability to generate new pictures, audio and other media using existing data.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has to approve many of those mergers—and Trump stacked the FCC with his supporters.—
Lizz Winstead,
Time,
27 Sep. 2025
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Kneeling was widely used by protesters and supporters after Floyd’s death to signal sympathy with the Black Lives Matter movement and a call for racial justice.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Stephanie Bell is none other than Stephanie Kelton, now an exponent of Modern Monetary Theory.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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As one careful exponent of technical legal craft addressing another, Burroughs hit the mark.—
Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Apostle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostle. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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