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as in to sell
to provide publicity for
promoting a new line of toys based on the popular movie
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2
as in to elevate
to move higher in rank or position
the navy promoted her to captain for her record of outstanding performance
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as in to encourage
to help the growth or development of
a campaign promoting good dental hygiene
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as in to grow
to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care
spends all her time now promoting her new business
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Recent Examples of promote
Founded in 2014, the Frankfurt Foundation for Research and Education promotes teaching, research, and lifelong learning at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
Others critiqued the magazine for still promoting skin care products and treatments.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
Ryan Silverfield, who was promoted to replace him at Memphis, has posted consecutive 10-win seasons.
—Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
The upcoming finale show is promoted by Doussan Music Group and Peachtree Entertainment.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2025
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
Others critiqued the magazine for still promoting skin care products and treatments.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
Ryan Silverfield, who was promoted to replace him at Memphis, has posted consecutive 10-win seasons.
—Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
The upcoming finale show is promoted by Doussan Music Group and Peachtree Entertainment.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promote
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There were 16 sites in 2016, when Roberts first took minority private equity funding from BGF, later selling a majority stake to Fremman in 2021, remaining as CEO.—
Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
8 Oct. 2025
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Even though the Nittany Lions lost a top-five draft pick in edge rusher Abdul Carter, the thought was that Knowles could elevate an already-strong Penn State defense that returned plenty of talent.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Goad joined The Tennessean in 2016 as the business and entertainment editor and has been critical to the company’s digital growth, leading a dramatic expansion of music and entertainment coverage while elevating its enterprise business reporting.—
Nashville Tennessean,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Oct. 2025
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Attendees left the event with tourniquets or trauma bandages and were encouraged to reach out to Bound Tree Medical to purchase additional supplies for their congregations.—
Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Deadheading encourages chocolate cosmos plants to produce more flower buds, keeping plants productive.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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Over the years, the couple gave parcels of the land away for churches, schools and hospitals for the community to grow.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
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Lawson-Remer cited the connection between education and clinical practice, and the ability to keep working while learning, as the key factors in making progress in the larger goal of significantly growing the local mental health care workforce.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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The attendance figures that MLB and other sports leagues publicize typically represent the number of tickets teams sell, not the number of people who actually show up to games.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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The opening of the office was not widely publicized until after the event, and details of Patel’s meetings with local officials were released via public records.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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On a 50% discount right now, the TP-Link Archer AXE75 upgrades your home Wi-Fi without the setup headache.—
Jade Chung-Lee,
PC Magazine,
8 Oct. 2025
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Stability is going to upgrade some positional situations and downgrade others.—
Law Murray,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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The fruit originated in temperate regions of the world like Europe and Asia, where wild species were cultivated thousands of years ago.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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After years of research and development, the brand launched Bananatex in 2018, a revolutionary material made from abacá fibers cultivated regeneratively in the Philippines.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
9 Oct. 2025
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Meet Nashville's new crime-fighting Clydesdale Metro Nashville mounted patrol officer Michael Douglas squeezed a three-foot-long rubber chicken, producing an increasingly louder and closer screeching sound to try and provoke a 1,700-pound Clydesdale named Ross.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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Now the podcast era produces orders of magnitude more hours of political commentary than any human can consume.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Promote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promote. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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