as in to preach
to try to convert (a group or area) to a different religion (especially Christianity)
The missionaries set out to evangelize the world.
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Recent Examples of evangelize
For me, the goal is not to evangelize for nuclear but to remove the emotion and add data.
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Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Elsewhere, Ba has evangelized the kind of faster, more reliable access to the internet that 2Africa promises.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Influencers skipped the middleman and built audiences on nontraditional platforms — something Ashe had evangelized years earlier.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 26 Sep. 2025
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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Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Elsewhere, Ba has evangelized the kind of faster, more reliable access to the internet that 2Africa promises.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Influencers skipped the middleman and built audiences on nontraditional platforms — something Ashe had evangelized years earlier.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 26 Sep. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evangelize
preach
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But White has long preached the process over championship pedigree to his potential players, and that doesn’t change now that Texas has a title.—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Feb. 2026
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But on one occasion, Francis paused to preach to a flock of birds.—
Vanessa Corcoran,
The Conversation,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Evangelize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evangelize. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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