Sample Sentences for
advocate
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(editor-reviewed)

advocate as in:  to advocate

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She advocates stricter gun control.
advocates = publicly supports
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    She advocates giving all students the opportunity to attend school in the summer too.
    advocates = recommends or publicly supports
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    Through the Malala Fund, I decided to advocate for the education of Syrian refugees in Jordan.  (source)
    advocate = to recommend or publicly support
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    Many critics argued that such evidence would ultimately disempower poor victims, victims who were racial minorities, and family members who didn't have the resources to advocate for their deceased loved ones.  (source)
    advocate = support and speak up
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    Consistency, my dear Mr. Brocklehurst; I advocate consistency in all things.  (source)
    advocate = recommend
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    One of the techniques advocated by Dale Carnegie was: find the man's hobby.  (source)
    advocated = recommended
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    We are a small organization here in Garden Heights that advocates for police accountability.  (source)
    advocates = publicly supports
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    The fury of those nativists advocating wholesale slaughter was what struck Nadia most, and it struck her because it seemed so familiar, so much like the fury of the militants in her own city.  (source)
    advocating = recommending or publicly supporting
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    After half a mile, Advocator hooked up with Seabiscuit as Limpio dropped away, exhausted.†  (source)
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    Eminent, eminent people, one and all, members of the Society for the Prevention of Fantasy, advocators of the banishment of Halloween and Guy Fawkes, killers of bats, burners of books, bearers of torches; good clean citizens, every one, who had waited until the rough men had come up and buried the Martians and cleansed the cities and built the towns and repaired the highways and made everything safe.†  (source)
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    My advocation is not now in tune; My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him Were he in favour as in humour alter'd.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I can't advocate violence.  (source)
    advocate = recommend
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    Some eugenicists advocated euthanasia, and in mental hospitals, this was quietly carried out on scores of people through "lethal neglect" or outright murder.  (source)
    advocated = recommended
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    His speaking tone and rhetoric are bold and impassioned, but he advocates the same nonviolence to achieve his methods as Gandhi used in India.  (source)
    advocates = publicly supports
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advocate as in:  an advocate supporting

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She is a passionate advocate for children's welfare.
advocate = a person who publicly supports and works to advance a cause
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    Privacy advocates want the law changed.
    advocates = outspoken supporters
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    Besides being an advocate, I'm also an attorney.  (source)
    advocate = a person who publicly supports and works to advance a cause
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    May I introduce: Mama Frank, the children's advocate!  (source)
    advocate = supporter (spokesperson)
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    Having an advocate on the inside—someone who had gotten to know me and understood my story on a personal level—had obviously helped.  (source)
    advocate = supporter
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    Alan Grant was one of the principal advocates of the theory that dinosaurs were warm-blooded.  (source)
    advocates = public supporters
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    Matthew nodded over a FARMERS' ADVOCATE on the sofa and...  (source)
    ADVOCATE = supporter (spokesperson)
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    Some became trustees, mentors, and advocates against violence among inmates.  (source)
    advocates = supporters
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    Nathaniel, it seems, already has an advocate and trusted acquaintance, namely me.  (source)
    advocate = public supporter
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    The advocates of nuclear disarmament seem to believe that, if they could achieve their aim, war would become tolerable and decent.  (source)
    advocates = people who publicly support
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    He is the migrants' strongest advocate in Nuevo Laredo.  (source)
    advocate = public supporter
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    I know we probably weren't the most enthusiastic advocates of your idea, but we've been talking a lot, and we both agree...  (source)
    advocates = supporters
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    Perrin was an unlikely advocate for a multiethnic congregation.  (source)
    advocate = spokesperson (public supporter)
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    Indeed, advocates of a more aggressive approach to immigration argued that Mexican immigrants were a double threat.  (source)
    advocates = people who publicly support
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advocate as in:  an advocate in court

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    The company needs a good advocate to represent them in trial in Scotland.
    advocate = lawyer
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    The trial began, and after the advocate against her had stated the charge, several witnesses were called.  (source)
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    The JAG—Judge Advocate General, kind of like a military version of a prosecuting attorney—came out and investigated.  (source)
    Advocate = an officer of a military court
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    Thus we have an extra element of fear and danger when we go into combat against the Taliban or al Qaeda-the fear of our own, the fear of what our own navy judge advocate general might rule against us, the fear of the American media and their unfortunate effect on American politicians.  (source)
    advocate = a lawyer or officer of a military court
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    A chuckle passed among the prosecutors, advocates, and court reporters.  (source)
    advocates = lawyers
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    But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blameworthy?  (source)
    advocate = lawyer in colonial America
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    Soon after the original arraignment of Smith and Hickock, their advocates appeared before Judge Tate to argue a motion urging comprehensive psychiatric examinations for the accused.  (source)
    advocates = lawyers
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    'I have not the inclination to parley,' said Mr. Brownlow, 'and, as I advocate the dearest interests of others, I have not the right.'  (source)
    advocate = act as an English lawyer for
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    Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive?  (source)
    advocates = lawyers
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    Billy read the opinion of a staff judge advocate who reviewed Slovik's case, which ended like this: He has directly challenged the authority of the government, and future discipline depends upon a resolute reply to this challenge.†  (source)
    advocate = a lawyer or officer of the court in some jurisdictions in Europe, colonial America, and the military
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    I assured his honour, "that the law was a science in which I had not much conversed, further than by employing advocates, in vain, upon some injustices that had been done me: however, I would give him all the satisfaction I was able."  (source)
    advocates = lawyers
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    And I am a judge advocate in the Ministry of Legal Procedures, Comrade Monseigneur, and a much younger product of that revolution.†  (source)
    advocate = a lawyer or officer of the court in some jurisdictions in Europe, colonial America, and the military
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    Captain William Tudor, the judge advocate, described the whole army as impatient for action.†  (source)
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devil's advocate as in:  I'll play the devil's advocate

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    We need someone on this committee to play the role of the devil's advocate.
    devil's advocate = a person who takes an unpopular position to encourage debate or test ideas
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    Minho played devil's advocate on every single issue and for some reason gave Brenda dirty looks the entire time.  (source)
    devil's advocate = someone who takes an unpopular position to encourage debate or test ideas
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    You'll have to forgive me for playing devil's advocate.  (source)
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    For the past two hours I have played the devil's advocate; there is no point in continuing.  (source)
    devil's advocate = someone who takes an unpopular position to encourage debate or test ideas
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    She could count on him to play devil's advocate if she needed it, to point out flaws.  (source)
    devil's advocate = take an opposing position to encourage debate or test ideas
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    Jordan crossed his arms, playing devil's advocate.  (source)
    devil's advocate = someone who takes an unpopular position to encourage debate or test ideas
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    So, playing the devil's advocate, I told her who I had seen that morning and I said, you should see him.  (source)
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    The Devil's Advocate was appointed in advance by the reigning Pope in preparation for his own death.  (source)
    Devil's Advocate = an historic job title in the Roman Catholic Church given to someone whose job was to point to weaknesses in a candidate for pope
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    "Why do you keep playing devil's advocate about this?" he demanded.  (source)
    devil's advocate = someone who takes an unpopular position to encourage debate or test ideas
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    "Although," says Simon, "to turn Devil's advocate — just because a man is known to lie, it does not follow that he always does so."†  (source)
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    "Let me play devil's advocate," Maggie said.  (source)
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    And you play devil's advocate, I imagine.  (source)
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    Jordan had been playing devil's advocate, to see if Peter would take the bait, and sure enough the boy's face transformed.  (source)
    devil's advocate = someone who takes an unpopular position to encourage debate
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