championing
倡导,拥护,冠军,支持
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- : anything that takes first place in competition: the champion of a cattle show.
- : an animal that has won a certain number of points in officially recognized shows: This dog is a champion.
- : a person who fights for or defends any person or cause: a champion of the oppressed.
- : a fighter or warrior.
- 1
- : to act as champion of; defend; support: to champion a cause.
- : Obsolete. to defy.
- 1
- : first among all contestants or competitors.
- : Informal. first-rate.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
In Heinsohn’s first season, the defending NBA champions missed the playoffs for the first time since 1950.
It was among the more pleasant diversions since the outbreak for the coach of the reigning national champions after the NCAA canceled last season’s tournament.
On Monday, the field shrank by one when tournament organizers announced that 2017 champion Sergio Garcia will miss the tournament after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Masters tournament organizers announced Monday that 2017 champion Sergio Garcia will miss this year’s tournament after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Saturday removed any doubt, however, about the likely SEC East champion’s most obvious strength.
Ironically, as pope, his championing of the poor has given Liberation Theology a new lease on life.
Daniels says, championing the plight of an ethical news producer.
Irwin appears to have spent his career championing ideas that were simultaneously perfectly logical and extravagantly bizarre.
Obama started off well, championing service repeatedly during the 2008 campaign.
It features a scantily clad woman wearing a balaclava and holding a sign championing the dissident feminist anti-Putin punk band.
I should have remembered the consequences to the Countess if it were proven that she had been championing a fraud.
A noble objection to oppression; a noble championing of the rule of public right—these were the staples of Gladstones prophecy.
But in championing one rational virtue they employ two Christian vices, hypocrisy and intolerance.
To which Mrs Milvey added, taking thought for him, like the championing little wife she was; 'Oh yes, detained at the last moment.
The sight of the woman he loved championing his foe seemed to madden him.