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advocacy

[ad-vuh-kuh-see] / ˈæd və kə si /


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Advocacy groups have reported cases where assisted dying has been offered to people with disabilities by healthcare or support workers without the patient requesting it themselves.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Changli “Sophia” Luo was a divorcée living in New York City who had founded One World Initiative Advocacy, a Manhattan-based nonprofit that said it worked to produce video interviews with economists and environmentalists.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Homero López is an immigration attorney based in Louisiana who provides pro bono removal defense representation through his nonprofit, Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

“From age 30 to a hypothetical age 90 actual death, that could increase the death benefit two or threefold,” says Weber, who is also treasurer of the Life Insurance Consumer Advocacy Center.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Advocacy, ad′vo-ka-si, n. the function of an advocate: a pleading for: defence.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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