as in recommendation
a statement that strongly urges someone to do or avoid doing something
Despite her parents' exhortations to spend responsibly, she blew most of her savings on an expensive sports car.
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Recent Examples of exhortation
Each of Sanders’s videos is accompanied by thousands of comments, most by apparently delighted women who feel liberated by Sanders’s exhortations.
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Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
Perhaps, but for Jacinto, the exhortation is literal.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Perhaps the exhortations of the Ukrainian and other European leaders had resonated.
—Tom Nagorski, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
With reality so often at odds with their idealized portrait, Gavin and Steinberg retreat into exhortation.
—James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
Perhaps, but for Jacinto, the exhortation is literal.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Perhaps the exhortations of the Ukrainian and other European leaders had resonated.
—Tom Nagorski, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
With reality so often at odds with their idealized portrait, Gavin and Steinberg retreat into exhortation.
—James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhortation
Noun
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Plus, many of our recommendations double as decorative accents for a kitchen.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
15 Oct. 2025
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Not long ago, Ma sent us recommendations for three books that have contributed to his thinking on this theme—books that interrogate timeless aspects of human nature, our complex relationships to one another, and our entanglement with the natural world.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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When asked about Roberts’ suggestion that Ohtani’s at-bats were shorter on his pitching days to conserve energy, his response was brief.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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My suggestion is to offer 1% or 2%.—
Jeff Lazerson,
Oc Register,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Sourcing & Methodology This article was generated by software that analyzes National Weather Service warnings and advisories and creates an article based on templates created by humans.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Here there’s no warning, no provocation.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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Patrick also has his own researcher, so the cast members all had access to this dropbox full of stuff, including incredible academic studies of John Gacy’s speech pattern and word choice and syntax use, and a breakdown of the Chicago dialect and his Polish background.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
18 Oct. 2025
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Likewise, Danielle Cooney of Live Free Indiana dedicated her speech to railing against Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal for housing ICE detainees at the county jail.—
Tony Cook,
IndyStar,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Exhortation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhortation. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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