promote
verb (used with object)
to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further.
promoted
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past participleof promote.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof promote.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
promoteverb (used with object)to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further.
Example Sentences
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“You do have individual contributors who got promoted to manager and have no idea how to actually manage, and are absolutely slowing things down and causing problems,” Butterworth says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
They will be promoted on social media and television by washed-up athletes and unscrupulous influencers paid well for their perfidy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Since being promoted to number three in England's T20 side at the World Cup earlier this year, Brook averages 95.20 at a strike-rate of 200.84.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Most of these ads were removed automatically by Meta, however Mantzarlis said many ads it identified had promoted domains or publishers that his site, Indicator, had previously flagged to the tech giant.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Walter’s father was sent to Dachau, a notorious concentration camp in southern Germany, and Walter was promoted in the Hitler Youth.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
