Meaning & use
promoting
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Actively supporting or encouraging the progress, sale, or acceptance of something.
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The company is promoting its new product through a nationwide campaign.
Teachers focus on promoting curiosity as much as memorization.
A note on using this word
"Promote" comes from Latin "promovere," meaning "to move forward," which still captures the word's core sense of pushing something ahead.
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