as in proponent
a person who actively supports or favors a cause
a fervent apostle of universal health care
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Recent Examples of apostle
The dish is sometimes made with whole chickens broken into 12 pieces—purportedly to honor Jesus’s apostles—though many restaurants opt for the convenience of drumsticks.
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Lenore T. Adkins, Bon Appétit, 14 Jan. 2025
Excited by the ability to build without wrecking the atmosphere (as much), timber’s apostles have labored to normalize it in large-scale construction.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
Some settlers wanted to name the town after Flake, while others wanted to name it after Erastus Snow, an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
Among the pieces are two sketches of the 12 apostles (the disciples of Jesus in the New Testament), which Pope Julius II, who commissioned the work, wanted Michelangelo to include in the upper corners of the ceiling, but whose likeness was ultimately scrapped by the artist.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
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Lenore T. Adkins, Bon Appétit, 14 Jan. 2025
Excited by the ability to build without wrecking the atmosphere (as much), timber’s apostles have labored to normalize it in large-scale construction.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
Some settlers wanted to name the town after Flake, while others wanted to name it after Erastus Snow, an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
Among the pieces are two sketches of the 12 apostles (the disciples of Jesus in the New Testament), which Pope Julius II, who commissioned the work, wanted Michelangelo to include in the upper corners of the ceiling, but whose likeness was ultimately scrapped by the artist.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostle
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However, proponents believe navel pulling can offer all these benefits and enhance overall vitality.2 Much of this practice is rooted in Ayurveda, an alternative approach to medicine that has existed for thousands of years.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
26 Mar. 2025
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Musk and other autonomous vehicle proponents have pushed for simpler rules and exemptions to restrictions on vehicles that don’t have human controls.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
25 Mar. 2025
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Foods That Will Keep You Full Without Spiking Your Blood Sugar Learn more about our advocates A Quick Review People with type 2 diabetes do not produce enough or resist insulin.—
Julia Ries,
Health,
9 Apr. 2025
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Sellner has been an outspoken advocate for the rights of mothers in Germany.—
Asif Burhan,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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About forty per cent of the graduates of the Army’s infantry officer schools, Peri notes, come from the dati leumi, or nationalist Orthodox minority, many of them extremist yeshiva students and supporters of settlements.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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Dozens of Khalil supporters showed up at the New Jersey courtroom, necessitating an overflow room for those who wanted to watch the proceedings.—
Gloria Pazmino,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, has been an eloquent exponent of this general view.—
Dylan Matthews,
Vox,
28 Mar. 2025
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That would have given him more complicated Taylor approximations, with exponents greater than 2.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Apostle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostle. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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