as in proponent
a person who actively supports or favors a cause
rah-rah boosters for the sports team will be attending the game and carrying large signs
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Recent Examples of booster
France took the lead in the continent's postwar rocket industry, providing the lion's share of funding for Ariane, and taking responsibility for building engines and booster stages.
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Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2025
And, as with beach closures, even successful launches disrupt air traffic, with the FAA closing up to 250 nautical miles of airspace is for launches and booster re-entry, according to the Air Line Pilots Association.
—Edward Woodson, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2025
Major athletic departments and their boosters will almost certainly try to spend above this cap.
—Joe Sabin, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
The first-stage booster made its ninth flight landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, marking its 100th booster catch.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
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Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2025
And, as with beach closures, even successful launches disrupt air traffic, with the FAA closing up to 250 nautical miles of airspace is for launches and booster re-entry, according to the Air Line Pilots Association.
—Edward Woodson, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2025
Major athletic departments and their boosters will almost certainly try to spend above this cap.
—Joe Sabin, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
The first-stage booster made its ninth flight landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, marking its 100th booster catch.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for booster
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However, proponents believe navel pulling can offer all these benefits and enhance overall vitality.2 Much of this practice is rooted in Ayurveda, an alternative approach to medicine that has existed for thousands of years.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
26 Mar. 2025
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Musk and other autonomous vehicle proponents have pushed for simpler rules and exemptions to restrictions on vehicles that don’t have human controls.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
25 Mar. 2025
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About forty per cent of the graduates of the Army’s infantry officer schools, Peri notes, come from the dati leumi, or nationalist Orthodox minority, many of them extremist yeshiva students and supporters of settlements.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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Dozens of Khalil supporters showed up at the New Jersey courtroom, necessitating an overflow room for those who wanted to watch the proceedings.—
Gloria Pazmino,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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Who pays for treatment Industry advocates and those who seek more resources for intervention and prevention agree on one thing: without legalized gambling, there is no revenue stream for treatment.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
29 Mar. 2025
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Another facet of the court battle is that Congress specifically authorized the CFPB's work in statute, so advocates contend Trump can't erase it with the stroke of a pen in an executive order.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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That would have given him more complicated Taylor approximations, with exponents greater than 2.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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Van Doren loved literature, and was a great exponent of it.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
31 Jan. 2025
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Flea, Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench The concert was the latest in this format presented by veteran promoter and Knitting Factory founder Michael Dorf, who has staged 20 of them since 2006’s inaugural Joni Mitchell tribute.—
Caryn Rose,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2025
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Jackson, 58, said in a statement shared by promoters.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Booster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booster. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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