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adjective

variants also indorsed
as in authorized

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verb

variants also indorsed
past tense of endorse
as in advocated
to promote the interests or cause of an increase in the number of parents who endorse the idea of school uniforms

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Recent Examples of endorsed
Adjective
The endorsed candidate receives direct backing from the party. — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 2 June 2026 Blake ran in the Democratic primary for mayor and cross-endorsed Mamdani. — Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2025
Verb
Within hours, OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed it as companies, too. — Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026 Even Jane Fonda, who swore Raman into office after her 2024 city council reelection, endorsed Karen Bass for mayor instead. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026 Platner and Jackson had endorsed each other before the primary. — Margie Cullen, USA Today, 29 July 2026 According to his campaign website, Carpenter is endorsed by several political figures in the area, including Mayor Quinton Lucas, KC councilman Wes Rogers and current Clay County Western Commissioner At-Large Jason Withington. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026 The bill has been endorsed by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026 Trump endorsed Collins just days before the runoff last month. — Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 22 July 2026 The consortium of aquariums spent much of the early part of the year coming up with a plan to safely rescue the belugas -- at the request of Marineland and endorsed by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 July 2026 The three bills do not include several broader Supreme Court changes Schiff has previously endorsed, including term limits, adding seats to the court and establishing an enforceable ethics code. — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for endorsed
  1. authorized
  2. advocated
  3. certified
  4. supported
  5. licensed
  6. accredited
  7. sanctioned
  8. acceptable
Adjective
  • The authorized returns announced Thursday covered nine localities that had been evacuated.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 30 July 2026
  • On Thursday, the Times reported that Musk authorized spending between $100 million and $120 million on campaign operations in at least eight states this year, including the competitive Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan and Ohio.
    — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
Definition of authorized
Verb
  • Sections of the Tulu community have advocated for the creation of a separate Tulu Nadu state.
    — Andrew Pereira, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Pastor Robert Taylor of Beulah Baptist Church in Watts has advocated for greater resources for MLK hospital in his role as president of Watts Area Ministers.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of advocated
Adjective
  • Paint Like Bob Ross Complete a Bob Ross-style painting — complete with happy trees — in just one class taught by a certified instructor.
    — Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Beyond the national parks, the route offers hot springs, film locations, Indigenous cultural sites, historic towns, and nearly three dozen certified Dark Sky Places.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of certified
Verb
  • Council member Nancy Merrill, who supported the project as a private citizen before joining the council and voted in favor of the plan Tuesday, questioned why the proposal was rejected again.
    — Noah Daly August 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Under that effort, laboratory teams supported fuel design, probabilistic risk assessment, and regulatory engagement with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of supported
Adjective
  • Hemp beverages reached national scale by selling outside the licensed marijuana system, the same system that taxes and constrains the legacy and social equity operators Dawson has spent years amplifying.
    — Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Although consumers cannot access the private MLS directly, licensed agents can view information that is not publicly available, including showing instructions, price-change histories and other market data.
    — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Definition of licensed
Adjective
  • Both Hodgens and Chatzky recommend working with an accredited financial adviser who knows both your finances and your retirement goals to get the best guidance.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • Brian Spear, Managing Principal & cofounder of Sunrise Capital Investors, a real estate investment company catering to accredited investors.
    — Brian Spear, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of accredited
Adjective
  • Paradoxically, the situation in sanctioned nations will actually provide more app freedom.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
  • Most of the walkout’s broad base got the message that the era of sanctioned dissent was over.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Definition of sanctioned
Adjective
  • There’s an acceptable, understood feeling-things-out period that takes place in the first week of training camp.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • The concern about respectability politics is legitimate Black people have historically been expected to alter themselves to become acceptable to institutions whose standards were rarely built with them in mind.
    — Tee Wilson, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of acceptable

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