as in proponent
a person who actively supports or favors a cause
Milton Friedman is usually cited as the leading American protagonist of monetarism
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Recent Examples of protagonist
Beyond the Myth: The Untapped Leadership of Immigrant Women in AI
While the tech industry loves to romanticize the immigrant founder, aka the scrappy outsider who comes to Silicon Valley and builds a unicorn—the star protagonists are rarely female.
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Gemma Allen, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
As digitally dropped threats from an unknown predator grow increasingly sinister during the protagonist’s big date at a Chicago restaurant, the messages blast across the big screen in huge letters, or plaster an entire wall of the ladies’ restroom.
—Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Jang does spare young viewers the gore of the protagonist’s flagellation.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
What happens when the protagonist’s traits are withheld, undermined, and revised again and again?
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
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Gemma Allen, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
As digitally dropped threats from an unknown predator grow increasingly sinister during the protagonist’s big date at a Chicago restaurant, the messages blast across the big screen in huge letters, or plaster an entire wall of the ladies’ restroom.
—Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Jang does spare young viewers the gore of the protagonist’s flagellation.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
What happens when the protagonist’s traits are withheld, undermined, and revised again and again?
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for protagonist
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Prospective visitors, along with park proponents, are concerned about what the parks and experiences may look like after the sweeping layoffs across the National Park Service and the larger federal government in February.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Plan proponents saw this as a way to combat the district’s funding problems.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Apr. 2025
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Sellner has been an outspoken advocate for the rights of mothers in Germany.—
Asif Burhan,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Foods That Will Keep You Full Without Spiking Your Blood Sugar Learn more about our advocates A Quick Review People with type 2 diabetes do not produce enough or resist insulin.—
Julia Ries,
Health,
9 Apr. 2025
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In a statement posted to X, Taylor congratulated Lee and acknowledged the impact of his supporters.—
Oumou Fofana,
Essence,
21 Apr. 2025
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Some supporters even lost the will to protest, feeling nothing will change.—
Rob Tanner,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Finding Wiggle Room There is no fast, general purpose method for finding the minima of functions raised to high exponents.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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That would have given him more complicated Taylor approximations, with exponents greater than 2.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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Canada Rinaldi, 27, had traveled to Dallas from Oklahoma with a group of six friends when she was attacked after leaving a nightclub shortly before 2 a.m. on March 22, the Dallas Police Department told Fox News Digital.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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There were people in the town hall who were either friends or relatives of folks who were on the Truman.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2025
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“Protagonist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protagonist. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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