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Synonyms for support
Synonyms: Verb
advocate, back, champion, endorse (also indorse), patronize, plump (for), plunk (for) or plonk (for)
Synonyms: Noun
brace, buttress, mount, mounting, prop, reinforcement, shore, spur, stay, underpinning
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Examples of support in a Sentence
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I completely support your decision to stay. She no longer supports the war. The senator says that he supports the proposed legislation. Which presidential candidate do you support? The study is supported by the American Medical Association. The country's citizens were asked to support the war effort. Her friends supported her by signing her petition. The charity supports needy families. Bombers were called in to support the ground troops. The planet's atmosphere cannot support human life.Noun
The team gets a lot of support from its fans. I'd like to thank my parents for all of their love and support over the years. He depended on his wife for emotional support. He applied for financial support from the state. the company's friendly support staff Inspectors found that some of the bridge's supports were weak. She used my arm as a support and limped to the chair. These sneakers are designed to give your feet extra support.
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Many of the Republican establishment didn’t support the president. — Fox News, "Trump returns to New Hampshire, eyeing battlegrounds won by Clinton," 15 Aug. 2019 Jonathan Majors, Tichina Arnold, Rob Morgan, Mike Epps, Finn Wittrock, and Danny Glover have supporting roles. — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, "Last Black Man in San Francisco soundtrack coming to vinyl," 14 Aug. 2019 And while both Republicans and Democrats have previously supported enforcement of workplace immigration laws as a way to protect U.S. citizen workers, many businesses are having trouble finding workers due to low unemployment nationally. — Washington Post, "ICE raids raise question: What about the employers?," 14 Aug. 2019 The final risk is that the global services sector, which has supported growth, begins to mirror the downturn seen in manufacturing. — Charles Riley, CNN, "5 of the world's biggest economies are at risk of recession," 14 Aug. 2019 In fact, preventing the immigration of people who couldn’t support themselves was the subject of the very first immigration law ever passed in the colonies, in Massachusetts Bay in 1645. — Mark Krikorian, National Review, "Trump’s Commonsense Rule on Immigrant Welfare Use," 13 Aug. 2019 The findings also don’t support another hypothesis, that young cats learn to eat grass by watching older cats. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Researchers Think They Know Why Cats Eat Grass," 12 Aug. 2019