espouse

Example Sentences

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Whatever agendas they may personally espouse, these writers are too alert to the messiness of history and human nature to be rigidly ideological in their work.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

Claude itself admitted, in a recent interaction with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that even AI companies that espouse a moral commitment to something like privacy shouldn’t necessarily be trusted.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

He meant that on any policy debate—immigration restrictions, social matters, foreign policy, economics—the Christian Democrats should create room for politicians and voters to espouse the most conservative position.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Although government lawyers who espouse such theories should not be, on those grounds, subject to professional discipline, they can—and, I think, should—generally be shunned by the profession.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025

Or would espouse and proclaim anything that was not born of truth, and filled with blessing and benefaction for mankind?

From Quacks and Grafters by Unknown