root for
phrasal verb
rooted for; rooting for; roots for
: to express or show support for (a person, a team, etc.) : to hope for the success of (someone or something)
They always root for the home team.
Good luck on your upcoming show. Remember that we're all rooting for you.
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Chicago Med star Steven Weber is well aware that there’s a passionate contingent of viewers rooting for a romantic relationship between his character, Dr. Dean Archer, and Jessy Schram’s Dr. Hannah Asher.
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Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 26 Dec. 2024
After so much uncertainty, so much muddling through muck, people understandably wanted something clear and clean and good to work and root for.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
Olivia can clean up the dirtiest laundry, fix an election, and carry on an affair with the literal president (Tony Goldwyn) while keeping us shamelessly rooting for her.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2024
Recent shows have typically encouraged viewers to root for the women at their center: HBO’s House of the Dragon renders its central former friends turned sworn enemies as tragic, not malicious.
—Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
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Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 26 Dec. 2024
After so much uncertainty, so much muddling through muck, people understandably wanted something clear and clean and good to work and root for.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
Olivia can clean up the dirtiest laundry, fix an election, and carry on an affair with the literal president (Tony Goldwyn) while keeping us shamelessly rooting for her.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2024
Recent shows have typically encouraged viewers to root for the women at their center: HBO’s House of the Dragon renders its central former friends turned sworn enemies as tragic, not malicious.
—Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Root for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/root%20for. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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