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advancer

American  
[ad-van-ser, -vahn-] / ædˈvæn sər, -ˈvɑn- /

noun

  1. a person or thing that advances.

  2. the second branch of the antlers of a buck.


Etymology

Origin of advancer

First recorded in 1490–1500; see origin at advance, -er 1

Example Sentences

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Wall Street ended mostly in the red, with the Dow the only advancer.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Some scientists delight in the role of advancer or supporter of the new piece of knowledge that will change how we understand our world in some fundamental way.

From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2013

Buck had been given up as an advancer of paradoxes, and nobody but Carte had dared to controvert the popular belief.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace

And suppose that he then offers his heap of boards to the advancer of a + b as an equivalent for the wood + ten days' supply of vital capital?

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry

The glory swims Girdling the glory-giver, swallowed straight By night's abysmal gloom, unglorified Behind as erst before the advancer: gloom?

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

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