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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Their fundraising arm also endorsed Haley Stevens over Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate primary.

— Jay Stahl, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026
Massie, a conservative who has gained a reputation as a constitutionalist through his seven terms in the House, lost a primary earlier this summer after Trump endorsed his opponent.

— Lauren Peller, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

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In the 1920s and ’30s, some Zionists in Mandatory Palestine, a territory then under British administration, advocated for a binational Jewish-Arab state.

— Dov Waxman, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026
In a post on X in response to Tuesday’s murder, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper advocated for a tightening of state law surrounding domestic violence offenses.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026

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Silicon Labs has opened a new research and development laboratory for advanced chip design and testing at its Austin headquarters, supported in part by a $23 million grant from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
Traditional Republicans who have supported, or at least gone along with, the party’s attacks on Muslims and immigrants and its rejection of democratic norms have spoken out against cracking the door open for anti-Semites.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026

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But on Thursday, the Missouri Supreme Court ordered the state to use a different map adopted in 2022 for the imminent 2026 general election.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
In North Carolina, where the G20 meeting in Chapel Hill took place, dozens of local governments have adopted moratoriums or tighter zoning rules as data center proposals spread across the state.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

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