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advocacy

[ad-vuh-kuh-see] / ˈæd və kə si /


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For his advocacy of English prose in the sweet and easy styles of Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift, the Scots bookworm has been heralded as “a founder of the study of English in universities.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Ethiopian nationals who had sued to preserve TPS and the advocacy group African Communities Together expressed disappointment, saying the ruling created fresh dangers.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Vessel strikes and entanglements are leading causes of whale deaths, according to advocacy groups and government trackers worldwide.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

Cuban’s online advocacy didn’t change Elevance Health’s coverage, but by calling attention to denials like the one that Herres experienced, he is pushing for broader change.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

With this in mind, we spent weeks and weeks quietly holding meetings with business and advocacy groups as well as members of Congress.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Her advocacies center on defending human rights and empowering the poor partly by teaching them their legal rights.

From Seattle Times May 7, 2022

"She's someone that they can really look up look up to with her advocacies and how she carries herself - she really encapsulates that ethos of inclusivity."

From BBC Jul. 22, 2021

Nine other organizations, including the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter, gay rights groups and immigrant advocacies, supported the complaint.

From Washington Times Jan. 26, 2016

If nobody compromises, then the result is multiple pure advocacies that result in nothing.

From Washington Post Apr. 17, 2015

Go to the bottom of all those clever advocacies for unity of Church and State, and you will meet, as their primus motor, the worm of comfort and human inertia.

From The Agony of the Church (1917) by Nikolai Velimirović




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