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New York Fed President John Williams, who has been a leading advocate of the central bank’s “hold and wait” strategy on interest rates, sounded more open to an interest-rate increase in a television appearance Wednesday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Defence advocate Barry Smith KC said the first priority of a nursery was the safety and wellbeing of the children there.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Mr. Gerhardt tells us that when he said he was an advocate, “I meant that in my position as consultant, I represented the faculty voice and interests.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Although G20 talks broadened to cover issues like climate change and global health over time, analysts expect Washington to advocate a "back-to-basics" approach this year.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

A dozen Kansas women organized a women’s rights society to advocate for full female suffrage, and Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell went to Kansas to work on the campaign.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Transparency advocates counter that sharing mug shots can help solve crimes, vet claims of police abuse and avoid confusion when a person has a common name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Still, progress toward new, nonpolice approaches to traffic enforcement has been frustratingly slow in Los Angeles, advocates say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Tara Humphrey, a primary care leadership consultant, advocates keeping her out-of-office on for her first day back.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

So while child-safety advocates hope this settlement can usher in a new, healthier era of social media, Meta isn’t fully off the hook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Internet has accomplished what even the most fervent consumer advocates usually cannot: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Homeowners routinely reported that their insurance companies refused or delayed claims, advocated for cleaning methods that experts deemed insufficient and pushed residents to move back before testing showed their homes were safe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The detention marks an ironic turn for Yiannopoulos, who has publicly advocated for the same aggressive immigration enforcement that now threatens to remove him from the country.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

During his campaign for the Fed chair job, he advocated for rate cuts — at the time, the White House’s preferred strategy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

"These reflections offer a rare insight into how Gandhi lived the principles he advocated publicly, making this an especially valuable record of his thought and practice," Vazirani said in a statement.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Which apparently was written by a group of terribly advanced monks who sort of advocated this really incredible method of praying.”

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

Julie Meyer Rowett, an elder-law attorney who has been advocating for estate-recovery reform in Oregon, took the case on a pro bono basis.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Having stopped full-time work in May, Ren spends his days caring for Huanle and advocating for his wife -- posting case updates to an X account with a few hundred followers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Elon Musk, best known for disdaining fossil fuels and selling close to 10 million electric vehicles, is actively advocating natural-gas turbines for data centers and chip factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

On the whole, this looks to be a positive inflection point in our political leadership, empowering a new generation of leaders advocating needed changes in the government’s relationship with its constituents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

When they learned of my speech, I was severely reprimanded for advocating such a radical departure from accepted policy.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela