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boosters

noun

plural of booster

as in proponents

a person who actively supports or favors a cause rah-rah boosters for the sports team will be attending the game and carrying large signs

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Recent Examples of boosters The task force wondered why a sports facility at a state university wouldn’t be funded by state appropriations and university boosters’ clubs. — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026 Manufacturers must produce hardware faster, ground crews must prepare missions in parallel, and reusable boosters must return to service efficiently. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026 But rather than hail this trend as proof of AI’s skyrocketing potential, many in the field — skeptics and boosters alike — take it as evidence that benchmarking itself has become fatally flawed. — Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 While SpaceX has successfully recovered a trio of Super Heavy boosters using the mechanical arms of its Starbase launch tower, the company has yet to return a Starship upper stage to its launch site under its own power. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026 That was the sentiment for Republican officials in Tulare County, where local economic boosters hope to see housing growth as people leave the state’s more expensive coast. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026 Penn State fans and boosters though, might already be regretting their program's big reset. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 The anti-catalog exposed, after the fact of the Bicentennial, the grotesqueries of corporate beneficence and private boosters that had supplemented the government’s project. — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 There are hopes among boosters of the federal incentive that it can be attached to a year-end government funding bill, with the current legislation running out on that date. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026

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That could explain why spinning galaxies can be held together without needing an extra source of gravity from dark matter, its proponents have argued.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
Peptide proponents argue that shoddy manufacturing — not the peptides — causes harm.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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Student groups protesting since mid-September through school blockades have urged supporters to join them.

— SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
An hour before a ball was even kicked on Sunday afternoon, the beating of drums and chanting from the River Guard supporters group could be heard loud and clear from the locker rooms at the Boas Soccer Complex.

— Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 17 Oct. 2026

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But much like the way studios and directors of the 1960s and ’70s embraced the once-taboo profanity and nudity, this year AI has found a new wave of advocates eager to go public.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
The payments are adjusted every year based on inflation, but many older Americans and their advocates have long said that the annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) formula doesn’t match the actual increase in expenses.

— Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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