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as in borrowed
to take for one's own use (something originated by another)
after working among them for two years in the Peace Corps, she felt compelled to espouse the peasants' cause for social justice
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for espoused
Adjective
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Watson was 26, married and childless at the time of the crash.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Apr. 2025 -
No doubt a married couple in crisis at eight o’clock on a weekday morning.—
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Three years later, Stack borrowed another $60 million from GE Capital, this time to buy out his investors.—
Jemima McEvoy,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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The brothers learned as teenagers that their father had borrowed money through a federal program to drill for wells, and wound up $4 million in debt, including interest, when the wells failed, with the land pledged as collateral.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Somewhere there is a happy medium to be found between the overbroad rules of the previous administration and the complete absence of rules for domestic companies that the present administration has now adopted.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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There was even a handwritten letter from my birth mom, written the day I was adopted.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
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The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 June 2024
Adjective
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The results showed that, across the board, couples who had a child before marrying did not have worse marital outcomes than couples who followed the more traditional route.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Heather had been working with the Kingpin as his marital therapist and had taken a strong anti-vigilante stance, so her boyfriend's momentary slip was the straw that broke the camel’s back, making her turn to the dark side and team up with the Kingpin.—
Skyler Trepel,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Espoused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/espoused. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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