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root for

VERB
  1. take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
    I'm pulling for the underdog
    We all rooted for the home team
    Are you siding with the defender of the title?

How To Use root for In A Sentence

  • My question is this: If my kids who are born in Miami decide to become fans of the teams that I root for, because they want to follow the footsteps of there dad, could that be another acception to the rule? Girsch's Law of Sports Fandom « Lean Left
  • Andy Ricker, who won the 2011 James Beard award for best chef in the Northwest, shops the stalls of Hmong farmers at his Portland, Oregon, market to find fiddlehead ferns, vegetables like "phak khanaa" or Chinese broccoli, exotic, untranslatable herbs and crucial ingredients like cilantro root for the innovative Asian cuisine he turns out at his restaurant Pok Pok. Chefs talk about unusual farmers market finds
  • You come to win, not to dally with numbers and root for the home team.
  • It starts as a heist movie, we're invited to root for the beautiful heroine/antiheroine who is in moral turmoil; and then - well, you know what happens next. MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers
  • Moreover, lateral root formation can be initiated by the application of the plant hormone auxin.
  • Some method is then used to derive the syntactic representation for the derivative form from combining the root form and the affix.
  • The house, and all of the activities that went on within it, he chose to call the domus, after the Latin root for the words “domestic” and “domesticated.” The Goddess and the Bull
  • Soil hilled up around the corn plant as it grows stimulates further axillary root formation.
  • Some method is then used to derive the syntactic representation for the derivative form from combining the root form and the affix.
  • Many environmental factors may stimulate cluster root formation.
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