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advocacy

[ad-vuh-kuh-see] / ˈæd və kə si /


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Beyond her screen work and family tragedy, Saint James was also known for her longtime advocacy in the sports world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

It is a "historic achievement" for Brazil, said Marcio Astrini, executive secretary at climate advocacy group Observatorio do Clima.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

He pointed to her advocacy to expand Executive Directive 1 to fast-track mixed-income housing in addition to affordable housing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Was it something about the music itself, Mr. Byrne’s advocacy, cultural changes, or a combination?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Civil rights advocacy has not always looked the way it does today.

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

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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