PLONKED (FOR) Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

plunked (for)

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variants or plonked (for)

past tense of plunk (for)

as in endorsed

to promote the interests or cause of I'm willing to plunk for any program that will reduce carbon emissions

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Flanagan has not endorsed or campaigned on the Green New Deal.

— Maydeen Merino, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026
Lahn, who was endorsed early in his primary by political committee MAHA Action, has diverged from many of his Republican peers in directly linking polluted water and agrochemicals to Iowa’s cancer crisis.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

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Earlier popes had maintained that exception, though Pope John Paul II increasingly advocated ending capital punishment, stressing that those convicted of crimes retain their human dignity.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
At the same time, Sargent advocated for Christian Children’s Fund, Special Olympics, World Hunger, AIDS Project Los Angeles and the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

— Justine Fisher, PEOPLE, 12 Oct. 2026

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The festival is supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
The European Research Council supported the research through the H2Bro project, following Rothschild’s ERC Advanced Grant awarded in 2023.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

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