cheerlead
Americanverb (used with object)
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to act as cheerleader for.
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to encourage by or as if by cheerleading.
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of cheerlead
By back formation from cheerleader or cheerleading
Example Sentences
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On the other side sits Ainsley, who would lose a grade-school spelling bee to a bag of hair extensions yet manages to get into college as a cheerleading squad walk-on.
From Salon
As in “Cheer,” the aim is to win at the cheerleading nationals in Daytona Beach.
From Los Angeles Times
Her expertise was important to them as was getting the world of cheerleading right.
From Los Angeles Times
Claire McCarthy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, advises parents to spread their compliments, love and cheerleading evenly among their children to avoid resentments or emotional fallout later in life.
From MarketWatch
A cheerleading chorus of so-called conservatives in the media eased the way.
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