proponent
Example Sentences
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Trump has also been a proponent of cryptocurrencies.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
Kennedy is also, fittingly for his family’s reputation for being full of robust outdoorsmen, a big proponent of getting outside into the woods—advice being made dangerous by the ticks.
From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025
Mark Kelly is the latest proponent of the “Everyone is 12” theory.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025
Last year, for example, he sided with Elon Musk, a staunch proponent of the H-1B work visa program typically used by foreign professionals in fields such as engineering, technology and medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
In the 1970s, the famed Tyrolean alpinist Reinhold Messner emerged as the leading proponent of gasless climbing, declaring that he would ascend Everest “by fair means” or not at all.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing proponent
Power Prefix: pro
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Grade 9, List 4
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Vocabulary from the Third and Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
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