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[ verb ] choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

Synonyms

adopt follow

Examples

"She followed the feminist movement" "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"

Used in print

(Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)

Mexico , Panama , and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism , and there is no country - save the Dominican_Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged - where Castroism and anti Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause .

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[ verb ] take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

Examples

"She embraced Catholocism" "They adopted the Jewish faith"

Related terms

accept take_up borrowing

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