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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

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

“He was working with social values — values he was espousing and values he was against.”

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2017

Mrs. Ramsey looked with wonder and something like terror and aversion at this pretty, violent girl, who was espousing so vehemently, not to say rudely, the cause of the distant relatives of her husband's family.

From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Brett, Harold M.