as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
Franklin, who is also a minister, was inspired to tell this particular Bible story after preaching a sermon series on singleness and relationships.
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Giana Levy, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
As the rest of America adjusts to Homelander's iron fist, back at Godolkin University, the mysterious new Dean preaches a curriculum that promises to make students more powerful than ever.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn has been preaching rushing with vision in order to keep the defense focused from game to game.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
Trump preached about an America in decline despite reams of evidence to the contrary.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 24 Sep. 2025
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Giana Levy, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
As the rest of America adjusts to Homelander's iron fist, back at Godolkin University, the mysterious new Dean preaches a curriculum that promises to make students more powerful than ever.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn has been preaching rushing with vision in order to keep the defense focused from game to game.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
Trump preached about an America in decline despite reams of evidence to the contrary.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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Influencers skipped the middleman and built audiences on nontraditional platforms — something Ashe had evangelized years earlier.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
26 Sep. 2025
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Previously, new languages could emerge from individuals or small teams evangelizing their approach to potential contributors and users.—
Stephen Cass,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Sep. 2025
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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.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.—
Jared Yates Sexton,
The New Republic,
25 Mar. 2020
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“Preach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preach. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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