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advocacy

[ad-vuh-kuh-see] / ˈæd və kə si /


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It took New Mexico years to pass these reforms, but state unions recently dropped their opposition to the bill after months of advocacy by supporters, including Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

California has the highest concentration of Salvadoran TPS holders in the nation, with smaller concentrations in Texas, Maryland and New York, according to the immigrant advocacy organization FWD.us.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

“Rising home-insurance costs are an immediate affordability concern for families across the country,” TJ Helmstetter, a spokesperson for advocacy group Insurance Fairness Project, said in a statement.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

The release is part of an agreement with 9/11 Health Watch, a victims' advocacy group that had taken legal action to compel the city to make the documents public.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

Throughout most of our nation’s history—from the days of the abolitionist movement through the Civil Rights Movement—racial justice advocacy has generally revolved around grassroots organizing and the strategic mobilization of public opinion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

But certain topics, and certain advocacies, had dropped out of their conversation—not by Daphne's will.

From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward




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