Espoused [verb]

For a lot of fringe figures like anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, and QAnon conspiracy theorists, espousing an extreme belief is not necessarily about the truth.

While I favor many of the programs espoused by the progressive left they must recognize how the country votes and how the country views their proposals as currently presented.

We are a family … Trainers who espouse the pack metaphor extract the “hierarchy” component and ignore the social context from which it emerges.

Other doctors and epidemiologists who have signed on to the declaration espouse views that are largely rejected by the scientific community, including the notion that herd immunity would only require 10% to 20% of the population to be infected.

Whether or not the answer that you gave me to espouse was correct is a different question.

He warmly espoused the interests of his country, and many important measures were effected by his eloquence.

A pretty dispute followed, in which Edna warmly espoused her father's cause and the Doctor remained neutral.

She then espoused the second clerk, Berthier, in 1837, after having been on the point of accepting Lousteau.

The influence of Constantine seems to have been fraught with more of evil than of good to the new religion that he espoused.

Having espoused the party of the Persians, Pixodarus sent for a satrap to share the kingdom with him.