Example Sentences

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“It also increased their intentions to do things like ignore or block social media accounts sharing conspiracies, or, you know, argue with people who are espousing those conspiracy theories.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

More employers are espousing a healthy work-life balance that benefits male and female workers alike.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2020

Its leaders are espousing China’s infection control strategy and urging countries to take more aggressive action.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2020

Prominent experts are espousing panpsychism, which holds that consciousness might be a property of many kinds of matter, not just brains.

From Scientific American • Apr. 14, 2018

We must admit that we have to postulate, on behalf of the female vanity whose cause we are espousing, that it should not derive its inspiration solely from self-love.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert