espouse
verb (used with object)
to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.
was espousing
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past progressiveof espouse.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Some of the stuff he's talking about, these were the ideas that Michelle Obama was espousing: about healthier lunches, healthier foods.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2024
Most of all, he loved how Mr. Zuckerberg was espousing the hacker code of making the technology freely available — largely the opposite of what Google, OpenAI and Microsoft have done.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
But these views were relatively rare among physicians in charge of public health policy at the time he was espousing them.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
It was the kind of pull quote that unsurprisingly engendered a great deal of criticism about the kind of prideful masc-passing Tovey was espousing.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2018
I was espousing this girl's cause because I could not bear to see her honest, wholesome youth and beauty making fuel for disappointment and bitterness as mine had done.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin
