proponent
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RFK Jr. is a proponent, recently telling the podcaster Joe Rogan that he has taken one.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
"It was an intelligence failure," says Cheong Seong-chang, a North Korea watcher and vice-president at Sejong Institute who was an early proponent of the theory that Ju Ae will become the heir.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Verma has been a longtime proponent of using alternative assets to diversify his clients’ investments and hedge against risk in their equity portfolios.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
A proponent of nuclear negotiations, Larijani supported the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers which unravelled three years later after Trump withdrew the US from the accord.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
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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