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Meanings of espouse in English

Portuguese
casar-se
Catalan
casar-se
Spanish
enlazarse

Take in marriage.

casar-se
Portuguese
adoptar
Catalan
adoptar
Spanish
adoptar

Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own.

adoptar
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Examples for "follow"
Examples for "follow"
1
A possible debt capital market transaction may follow, subject to market conditions.
Reuters
2
Weekly government statistics from the Energy Information Administration will follow later today.
The Irish Times
3
The new measures follow a sharp increase in cases in recent days.
Radio NZ
4
Not this yes yes I must and order order order follow done.
A monster's notes
5
It says Europe needs to follow the US lead in promoting growth.
The Irish Times
1
The list was long and familiar: Be authentic; inspire purpose; embrace uncertainty.
The Irish Times
2
The government also decided to embrace freedom of information on Covid-related matters.
The Guardian
3
But don't expect foreign aid workers and companies to embrace this idea.
Wired
4
But making money on consumer technology requires that consumers embrace that technology.
Wired
5
The Obama administration did not fully embrace the clinic challengers' position, however.
Reuters
1
In order to achieve this result, Brazil decided to adopt new methods.
The Guardian
2
The Commission should adopt new rules by July, the lawmakers' resolution said.
Reuters
3
Another value Africans must adopt is love and concern for young people.
The Guardian
4
Relatively few Russian couples adopt despite state efforts to promote the practice.
Reuters
5
But they can only help public health if enough people adopt them.
Wired
1
Sudden doors flap, and gusts of brutal jollity sweep up the street.
Nights in London
2
This was even better, for sometimes hard winds sweep up the river.
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
3
I suppose he's going to sweep up many detachments of the enemy.
The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide
4
Most mornings I sweep up crumbs of polystyrene, from chewed roof insulation.
The Irish Times
5
Now, Betty, get a dust-pan and brush and sweep up that glass.
Elsie's New Relations / What They Did and How They Fared at Ion;...
Usage of espouse in English
1
Corporate social responsibility has become something that companies espouse, at least publicly.
The Guardian
2
And music, theatre and film will be used to espouse environmental causes.
The Irish Times
3
The difference is that they espouse armed force to achieve their objectives.
The Guardian
4
It can help you to live up to the values you espouse.
Radio NZ
5
So shall ever perish those who espouse the cause of the poor.
The Coming of the King
6
You cannot demonise one race and espouse equality at the same time.
The Irish Times
7
Only she would never have stipulated for an average to espouse Diana.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
8
Which is very ironic, because I always espouse the virtues of marijuana.
Love All The People
9
Nothing, however, but political considerations could have driven them to espouse it.
The History of the Thirty Years' War
10
Again will I espouse thee-inlife as in death, am I thine!
The Daughter of an Empress
11
The NSW Liberals espouse lower taxes, greater freedom and smaller government.
The Guardian
12
You let men espouse dangerous novelties and encourage them in disputation.
The Secret Eleanor
13
These are the values I espouse, whether or not you agree with them.
The Guardian
14
The Association has too much shrewdness to espouse the quarrel of an individual.
The Stillwater Tragedy
15
They were therefore led to espouse the cause of the governor.
Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
16
Among the first to espouse the abolition doctrines was Judge Tilden.
Cleveland Past and Present: Its Representative Men / Comprising ...
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