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Recent Examples of proponent Plan proponents saw this as a way to combat the district’s funding problems. Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2025 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 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 Craft tequila brands have been among the biggest proponents of additive free but big brands are also taking notice. John Kell, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for proponent
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Noun
  • Book dispute is one of three religious rights cases The case is one of three religious rights cases the Supreme Court is deciding in the coming weeks, and appears likely to be part of a recent trend of the court siding with religious rights advocates.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Environmental advocates and cheerleaders for biodiversity were overjoyed that the wolves — who in their best moments look a lot like big, cuddly dogs — were making such an astonishing comeback.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In a statement posted to X, Taylor congratulated Lee and acknowledged the impact of his supporters.
    Oumou Fofana, Essence, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Some supporters even lost the will to protest, feeling nothing will change.
    Rob Tanner, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Finding Wiggle Room There is no fast, general purpose method for finding the minima of functions raised to high exponents.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
  • 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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“Proponent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proponent. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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