to espouse
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7.8
- verb
- /ɪˈspaʊz/
- Formal
:
adoptar
- She chose to espouse the values of sustainability in her community initiatives.
- espouse beliefs
- espouse values
- espouse ideas
And we would say, well, the the Aristotelian is espousing some counterfeit virtues.
- And we would say, well, the the Aristotelian is espousing some counterfeit virtues.
- I mean, he in general espouses like taking it seriously.
- I think one thing you you espouse a lot, which I love, is the automation step.
- So again, Pascal is not, you know, trying to tear down reason or espouse a kind of irrationalism.
- So they came to my school that day, and, you know, they're espousing all these views of white supremacy.
- So he came back to England and he espoused the the fiber theory of preventing cancer.
- They still start leaning slowly towards the ideas that that company espouses.
- And you know, that's a way of doing philosophy that a lot of people have have espoused over time.
- So the destruction of whatever they're espousing in terms of fairness, balance, equity, that's the standard.
- So I think it's it's a problem now to make sense out of many worlds interpretation, you can't just espouse it.
- It's exactly that you drift on this point and it is whatever form of meditation or mantra that you decide to espouse.
Examples
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What the audience likes, Bob says, is to listen to a liberal like me espousing conservative causes.
Fiction book (1997) -
The popular model (or people's model) is the one espoused by proponents of liberation theology.
Academic text (1990) -
On the one hand, on that hand, why people who espouse traditional values would back that.
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I think one thing you you espouse a lot, which I love, is the automation step.
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Because like he says right here, I will back primary rivals who espouse making America great again.
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The more a company espouses their values, the less they actually value and more it's time to listen and learn.
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Such is the human condition: we may espouse beliefs incompatible with our actions.
Academic text (2011) -
Until a specific challenge comes to a librarian, it is easy to espouse ideas of intellectual freedom.
Academic text (2013) -
Yet in this essay, the principles he espoused were thoroughly hybrid.
Academic text (2013) -
Whichever value a choral director espouses, individual assessment stresses the importance of a musical education.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
440
3.2
To start using a new idea, method, or policy
390
3.9
To accept and start to use an idea or way of life
343
3.7
To support a cause or policy in public
215
2.8
To publicly support an idea or cause
192
3.8
Talk to people to persuade them to support a cause
69
3.9
Publicly support a cause, policy, or idea
Antonyms
How Supportive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Espouse comes from an old French verb espouser, which meant 'to marry' and is the same root as spouse, a husband or wife. So to espouse a cause is to 'marry' it, to accept and support it closely and publicly.