espousing

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Espousing that pragmatism, he found ready adversaries among fellow Black Americans, whom he criticized as defining themselves in racial terms and as reducing the broader Black experience to one of victimization.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2020

Espousing any philosophy bigger than that seemed to them to be nothing but pretension.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 9, 2016

Espousing a business-friendly platform, he was critical of City Hall, at one point calling it a “barnyard,” an assessment he still stands by.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2014

Espousing the uncompromising individualist’s motto of “Non serviam” — I will not serve — he rejected Ireland, Catholicism, conventional morality and every form of literary and linguistic constraint.

From Washington Post

Espousing a mechanical, as opposed to a teleological, conception of the universe, they have denied or ignored all influence of purpose, and eschewed all study of final causes.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter