Thesaurus results for EVANGELIZE

evangelize

verb

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 The vinyl boom started in the late 2000s as a more niche trend among audiofiles and indieheads, with alt-rock figures like Jack White serving as early trailblazers evangelizing the format. —

Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026 Kottikollon’s approach diverges sharply from Silicon Valley’s model, often defined by prescription-heavy biohacking and evangelized by the likes of Bryan Johnson. —

Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2026 Merrill, a former injection drug user who is in recovery, counts herself among the thousands of harm reduction workers nationwide evangelizing a shift away from needles and toward pipes. —

Lev Facher, STAT, 12 Feb. 2026 Ely evangelizes the merits of the program. —

Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for evangelize

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preach

Verb

The executives who preached job-hopping and the career coaches who built careers around hacking your way to more money were describing a market that genuinely rewarded those behaviors at a specific moment in time.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
That message, preaching unabashed ambition, seeped into everything, from books and podcasts to social media posts.

— Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026