promote
verb (used with object)
to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further.
self-promoting
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a word derived from
promote.
Example Sentences
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Yes, this host of self-promoting reminders masked as birthday wishes had an artificial, irritating aspect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
As the self-promoting overseer of X, he holds outsize influence over the countries whose political and electoral discourses still—for persistent lack of better alternatives—center on the text-based platform once known to them as Twitter.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
Not in a “game show host” self-promoting way.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
"What she was self-promoting was a different image than her father. Donald Trump is masculine, strong, and quote-unquote self made. Ivanka Trump is feminine and busy and family oriented, but professionally successful."
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
I thought she was just romancing him, kindly playing to his mostly self-promoting immigrant lore, but later she’d showed Mitt, too, kneeling down beside him to watch the men and women busy in the street.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
