ADVOCATES Synonyms: 121 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of advocate

as in proponents

a person who actively supports or favors a cause Mark Twain, Noah Webster, and President Theodore Roosevelt are among past advocates of a reformed spelling system

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as in lawyers

a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations with such a strong case against him, he's going to need the best advocate that money can buy

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advocates

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verb

present tense third-person singular of advocate

as in endorses

to promote the interests or cause of environmentalists advocating agricultural methods designed to slow the destruction of rain forests

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Recent Examples of advocates

Noun

The most effective advocates aren’t necessarily the ones who know the most medical information. —

Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 15 June 2026 Street safety advocates want more regular reporting. —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026 And did the advocates of this collective pedagogy imagine their children rising to heights of power, only to view the darker nations of the world through the same violent lens as their oppressors? —

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026 Bike safety advocates say his death, like so many others, was a preventable tragedy and the result of a series of political decisions that make Chicago’s streets unsafe. —

Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026 The measure passed by just two votes, 174 to 172, highlighting deep national divisions as rights advocates warn of a pervasive climate of fear and damage to migrants’ physical and mental health. —

Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026 Plenty of evangelical pastors, writers, and advocates have called for and modelled a more compassionate and inclusive faith. —

Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026 Leaders and advocates often stretch themselves thin by trying to solve every systemic and interpersonal problem immediately. —

Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026 Lawmakers had previously given state health officials the authority to conduct visits to the facility, and the Adams County Health Department launched an investigation into the facility earlier this year after immigrant advocates alleged that gastrointestinal illness was rampant. —

Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 9 June 2026

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And the rise of Restore Britain, another hard-right party amplified by Elon Musk which advocates for the large-scale deportation of migrants, has siphoned off some support for Reform too. —

Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 June 2026 The council advocates for the fair and equitable treatment of African American employees and residents of Sacramento. —

Kiara Adams, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2026 Albina advocates for shifting these habits by becoming present by utilizing somatic work. —

Lorinda Toledo, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026 Her initial idea was to focus on the group's Right to Pee campaign, which advocates for safe, clean and free public toilets. —

Neha Bhatt, NPR, 13 June 2026 Instead, the order advocates for multiple, overlapping layers of protection, including hardware and computer infrastructure tracking, rigorous testing before deployment, and real-time monitoring. —

Anjana Susarla, The Conversation, 12 June 2026 The article advocates for national service as a crucial policy response. —

Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 In 2024, the SAIC risked sanctions or censure from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a leading nonprofit organization that advocates for academic freedom, over its response to student activism. —

Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 9 June 2026 Instead, beneficiaries would continue receiving monthly checks, though reduced — an outcome advocates for older Americans warn could create financial hardship for millions of the program's beneficiaries. —

Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 June 2026

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The surest sign bitcoin will never be money can be found in what excited its proponents on the way up, along with its critics on the way down.

— John Tamny, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
Its proponents have turned it into a symbol of freedom and defiance.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 June 2026