advocated

verb

past tense of advocate
as in endorsed
to promote the interests or cause of environmentalists advocating agricultural methods designed to slow the destruction of rain forests

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Recent Examples of advocated Earlier popes had maintained that exception, though Pope John Paul II increasingly advocated ending capital punishment, stressing that those convicted of crimes retain their human dignity. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026 At the same time, Sargent advocated for Christian Children’s Fund, Special Olympics, World Hunger, AIDS Project Los Angeles and the American Foundation for AIDS Research. — Justine Fisher, PEOPLE, 12 Oct. 2026 El Sayed argued that the technology needed federal oversight, while Rogers advocated local oversight but defended the use of some surveillance processes in identifying people suspected of terrorism. — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026 Kubrick, who had always had misgivings about the scene but kept it in after his daughter Vivian advocated for it, decided to remove the epilogue after the first few days of exhibition. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026 Unlike Tamaki who advocated for the closure of Futenma without building a replacement in Henoko, Koja supported the relocation of Futenma’s airfield operations to Henoko as a way to secure Futenma’s return to Japanese control. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 7 Oct. 2026 The group also has advocated for the addition of public testimony to the commissions' process. — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026 Anthropic has advocated for AI regulation, and Amodei last month called for a global slowdown in AI development to address the tech’s risks. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 The organization successfully advocated for that in the city of Atlanta in 2022, when an ordinance was updated to add those protections. — Monique John, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for advocated
  1. endorsed
  2. supported
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  • Moore has publicly endorsed the use of smelling salts by football players, singing their praises in a 2024 Wall Street Journal article about their popularity among UM players during the Jim Harbaugh era.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Sponsored by Common Sense Media and endorsed by OpenAI, the bill is named after 16-year-old Adam Raine, whose parents sued OpenAI alleging ChatGPT encouraged his suicide.
    — Ella Chakarian, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of endorsed
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  • The festival is supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The European Research Council supported the research through the H2Bro project, following Rothschild’s ERC Advanced Grant awarded in 2023.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of supported

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“Advocated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advocated. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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