as in proponent
a person who actively supports or favors a cause
a deserving cause in need of a charismatic white knight who will galvanize public support
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Recent Examples of white knight
Should the approach from Foxconn turn hostile after a rebuff, Honda also offered to protect Nissan as a white knight investor, Nikkei said.
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Asia, 19 Dec. 2024
Roksanda found a white knight in The Brand Group, which purchased the fashion label founded in 2005.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
And this is an enormous deficit, a deficit that is in the range of the COVID deficits, without the benefit of any white knights.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
Here, his white knight’s armor is sullied before his face is scarred, and how that fits this version of Gotham City makes for a fitting rallying cry all its own.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Asia, 19 Dec. 2024
Roksanda found a white knight in The Brand Group, which purchased the fashion label founded in 2005.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
And this is an enormous deficit, a deficit that is in the range of the COVID deficits, without the benefit of any white knights.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
Here, his white knight’s armor is sullied before his face is scarred, and how that fits this version of Gotham City makes for a fitting rallying cry all its own.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white knight
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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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The good news for supporters of seven of the Premier League’s 20 clubs is that their lads will play for a trip to Wembley Stadium in next month’s FA Cup semi-finals at some point over the weekend.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
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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“White knight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20knight. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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