How to Use espouse in a Sentence

espouse

verb
Definition of espousenext
Synonyms for espousenext
  • The new theory has been espoused by many leading physicists.
  • Those espousing unpopular views were often excluded.
  • Democrats and pro-choice groups have widely espoused the idea of court packing in the months since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 14 May 2023
  • Politicians need to stop cozying up to those who espouse it.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Revelations about the work of great painters to espouse.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The president’s swipe across the aisle is likely a preface for the kind of rhetoric Democrats will espouse on the campaign trail in the coming months.
    — Alisa Wiersema, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Most espouse traditional views about the role of women and the sexes.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The Lummis-Gillibrand bill appears to espouse that view, much to the crypto crowd’s delight.
    — Wired, 6 July 2022
  • Practical types espouse the joys of a pale-blue surgical mask as a...
    — Katharine K. Zarrella and Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Members of the group are known to espouse white supremacist rhetoric.
    — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Benz, in his public posts and appearances, has not espoused the same racist views as Frame Game.
    — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • While he was cleared of charges of heresy, he was instructed to no longer espouse the theory.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 19 June 2023
  • The letter, meant to be satirical, espoused the use of sunshine over candles.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Most male players to this day seldom exceed 4⅝ and some even espouse gripping down to 4½.
    — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • There’s no hard data on how many Christians espouse QAnon.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • But these killings galvanized backlash from those who felt that the time for the pacifism that Martin Luther King, Jr., espoused had passed.
    — Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
  • Thompson said China can't espouse one thing then act in the opposite way.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Even folks who make a living beautifying homes espouse the virtues of the laundry chair.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Biles has found that younger Gen Zers, and the youngest athletes, Gen Alpha, espouse a more balanced approach both to training and to any challenge.
    — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The kind of optimism espoused by Andreessen leaves no room for questions, doubts, or debate.
    — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But the protests are planned, and many who attend, appear to be linked to a small number of local groups that espouse anti-gay and transgender views.
    — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • His fans in academia, never keen on missing a lesson of the master, at times espoused a somewhat more tepid agreement.
    — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Ours has been an organization with the courage to defend and espouse the cause of those less fortunate.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Christmas movies may not quite embody the spirit we’re told to believe the holiday must espouse.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Jurado, the tenant rights attorney, has staked out positions that run counter to many of those espoused by the three politicians in the race.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The style was born of a desire to espouse a spirit of social and technological progress.
    — Michael Bjornberg, Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
  • No one should have ever espoused any form of socialism after the collapse of the pact and its tragic results.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • This country loves to see itself through the blinders of platitudes like those espoused by DeGeneres this week.
    — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Fritz Lenz was still very much alive and espousing his eugenic theories when his son took on Chemie Grünenthal, in the name of every single infant severely disabled at the hands of bad medicine.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Its believers espouse the idea that the benefits of superpowerful AI so outweigh any risks that there should be no regulation of AI at all.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024

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