as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
The league’s complaint against Texas Tech spends considerable energy preaching about the vices of college athletes betting on sports.
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Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
17 June 2026
Musicians aren’t obligated to do anything political as part of the job, and plenty of audiences appreciate when artists don’t preach partisan points of view.
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Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2026
That was a big part of Blashill’s preaching.
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Kalen Lumpkins,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026
The players preach constantly about sacrifice.
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Fred Katz,
New York Times,
14 June 2026
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Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
17 June 2026
Musicians aren’t obligated to do anything political as part of the job, and plenty of audiences appreciate when artists don’t preach partisan points of view.
—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2026
That was a big part of Blashill’s preaching.
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Kalen Lumpkins,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026
The players preach constantly about sacrifice.
—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
14 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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The vast majority of the staff, from servers and sommeliers to porters and guides, hail from the surrounding area and evangelize for the Eastern Tennessee way of life.
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Brian Contos is the Field CISO at Mitiga with 30+ years of experience building successful companies and evangelizing cybersecurity.
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At least my mother was one of those who sermonized that sentiment.
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Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.
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“Preach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preach. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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