as in advocate
a person who actively supports or favors a cause
a vocal proponent of the use of electric-powered cars
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Recent Examples of proponent
Hartsuch, a proponent of using ivermectin to treat COVID-19, alleges that in December 2021, Kent Nebel, then the executive director of the Board of Medicine, indicated that 17 Iowa doctors had complaints filed against them for spreading false or misleading information about COVID-19.
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Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 28 Feb. 2026
Fred Carstensen, a professor of finance and economic at the University of Connecticut, has been a vocal proponent of leaning into data center development as a way of boosting the state’s post-industrial economy.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
Anthony Beale, the top City Council proponent of the machines.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
Both our shopping director Lori Keong and our shopping producer Lauren Arzbaecher are big proponents of Coop’s pillows.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 26 Feb. 2026
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Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 28 Feb. 2026
Fred Carstensen, a professor of finance and economic at the University of Connecticut, has been a vocal proponent of leaning into data center development as a way of boosting the state’s post-industrial economy.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
Anthony Beale, the top City Council proponent of the machines.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
Both our shopping director Lori Keong and our shopping producer Lauren Arzbaecher are big proponents of Coop’s pillows.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proponent
Noun
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His Health Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, an advocate of healthy eating, has repeatedly expressed his dismay at his boss’s diet.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Feb. 2026
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New Social Security shortfall dates alarm retirement advocates Retirement advocates sounded alarm at the findings.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Warren has been a supporter of similar legislation.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
26 Feb. 2026
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That changed a bit on a sunny Saturday in San Francisco, the contest assuming a smidgen of campaign heat — chanting crowds, sign-waving supporters, call-and-response from the audience — as the state party held its annual convention in this bluest of cities.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026
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This is an unusual position for an exponent of the public sphere and communicative rationality to take.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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The development of her own particular free indirect discourse form of writing culminated in her position as an early exponent of the Modernist short story.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Dec. 2025
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